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ENCYCLOPEDIA (HBO, debuting Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m. EDT). Children's Television Workshop, creator of Sesame Street, takes youngsters through the encyclopedia | in songs and sketches. First episode: from alligators to Attila...
Despite its confident lyricism and clear passions, Tracks bears the marks of the academic writers' workshop. The device of alternating the voices of the two narrators is schematic and of limited tonal interest. Plot is subordinated to episodic tours de force. In small doses, the graphic descriptions are impressive, but they can also be so relentless as to make the author sound like the thinking reader's Jean Auel...
...breaking into the house of the Three Bears. "Juvenile delinquent caught," she began forcefully. "Rampaged family home," she continued, looking gravely into the eyes of a juror. Then she demanded, "Must pay." The performance was part of an exercise in how to communicate and persuade at a recent workshop run by Applied Theater Techniques, a Los Angeles-based group that teaches acting skills to attorneys...
Derek Ellington, a 45-year-old rigger, said he was in a workshop near the control center when he heard the scream of "two gas leaks almost simultaneously, and about 30 seconds later there was the first explosion. It wiped out the control room and that was it. Our nerve center was gone...
...language," she says. "I didn't feel it had been written for the masses. So I wrote my first fan letter." A few months later, she heard about Mamet's play through veteran Director Mike Nichols, and contacted Mosher, with whom she and Penn had worked in a nonpublic, workshop staging of David Rabe's play Goose...