Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, a violin, cello and piano exchange various harmonies, attempting to reach a common ground. In a later piece an altercation between between cello and alto-trombone ranges from melodrama to farce. Kim's parallels and parodies the actors' disjointed monologues. In one skit a piano accompanies actress Irene Worth, responding to the natural cadences of her voice as she relives a traumatic childhood experience. The culmination of this tension between the actor and instrument occurs in the last piece when the voices of violin, piano and high soprano clash in an expressionistic fury...
...star of Narratives, Irene Worth, delivers a thoroughly engaging performance; she has already demonstrated her prediliction for avant-grade work in her earlier award-winning performances, Tiny Alice and Sweet Bird of Youth. Confined to one position on the stage, Worth must rely on her gestures, facial expressions and suggestively resonant voice to shift deftly from little girl t accusing lover and back again...
...works far increases the spectator's need to project his own despair in the spaces of the play." It would be a mistake to confuse an actor's shortcomings with the author's intent: to argue that the audience is simply misconstruing Kim's-and ultimately Beckett's-purpose. Worth struggles at points with the difficulties of her script, and her monologues sometimes appear awkward and belabored. Soprano Jane Bryden fails completely. Her words are inaudible...
...ravens, seals and deer. He is aware of the violence in the town and casual cruelty of the hunters. But the book's strongest writing is about the satisfactions of surviving a hard winter: wooden stoves, good drink, a safe journey home made in a blizzard. These are worth more than a tricky plot. Van de Wetering is an amateur who is good enough to get away with...
...said many migrant worker children drop out of school rather than miss so much work, and their lack of education "keeps the cycle going." "You tend to lose interest in the work and wonder if it's all worth it since you're always behind," she added...