Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly Joe Mooilia's set does the most any could to suggest grandness within small confines; the single backdrop quickly converts from a coldstone exterior to blood-red chambers. But Christopher Stone's blinding lighting consistently works at cross-purposes to the script. Nothing would help keep the show scary more than gloom at the right moments...
...talk in public, fearful of police retribution. Instead, they climbed on the bus that carried the visiting Americans and, standing in the aisle, spoke haltingly of their struggle for civil rights. Two days later, in an empty Port Elizabeth nightclub, with purple curtains and pedestals of flowers as a backdrop, South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster met with the same group to argue the cause of apartheid...
What gives socialist rhetoric much of its current appeal is the economic battering the world's economy has taken in the 1970s. Against the backdrop of seemingly incurable inflation, unemployment, industrial stagnation and volatile currencies, a clarion for an economic restructuring sounds attractive. Socialist states have not solved?only hidden or ameliorated?these problems. Ironically, at the very moment of its spectacular advances, socialism faces profound new crises of its own. At the same time socialism has become a word appropriated by so many different champions and causes that it threatens to become meaningless, and a new effort is needed...
...lights and drab walls of the hallways. The chandeliers illuminate small red, orange and blue banners, spattered with sewn-in mirrors and paintings of Krishna performing miracles and embracing Radha, his lover. Stained-glass windows cover one of the smaller walls of the rectangular room and provide a colorful backdrop for a light blue throne surrounded by white chrysanthemums. On the throne, sitting on a red cushion, is a picture of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the spiritual master and founder of ISKCON. He faces an orange curtain on the far wall and watches over devotees...
...cast does the job with style, helped along by Clarissa Bushman's effective choreography in the big numbers like "Company" and "Side by Side by Side," and by David Moore's split-level set, complete with one area for each couple. Everything--the costumes, the set, the backdrop--is done in early-'70s eclectic, but it works, save for a few stylized, overly cute New-York-skyline flats...