Word: stagecraft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moving, as well as more accurate, to have the aristocrat leave and the doctor face his fate. Furthermore, the episode subverts the play's moral stance. It is morally impermissible for the doctor to accept his life at the cost of the prince's. Even so, the stagecraft is considerably less faulty than the logic. Miller has written an equation with a missing term-power. Power precedes responsibility. One is not accountable for events that one is powerless to avert or affect...
...voice was not very shapely either, but through intermittent recitative, consummate stagecraft, and the selection of the ablest contemporary poets as her lyricists, she convinced even a contemporary London music critic, George Bernard Shaw, that she was "technically, highly accomplished." Among other aficionados: Spain's King Alphonso XIII, though he laughed at all the wrong parts, and Britain's roistering King Edward VII, who saw her each summer at Marienbad at the luncheons that he reserved for the untouchables...
...this is just about all the production has to offer. What would have been a fine background for an inspired Caesar seems wasted on pallid acting and stagecraft. Never is there an ingenious answer to the technical problems the play poses. Rarely does the acting become sharp; it never becomes inspired...
Much of the excitement, of course, springs from the play, and not the production. In many ways it is Marlowe's maturest piece of writing; certainly it is his most interesting piece of stagecraft. For the play moves becautifully through the complicated tragedy of the weak king Edward, employing a large--though never bulky--cast of scoundrel lords and scurrilous peasantry. Indeed, in its pageant and scheme, the play resembles nothing so much as Shakespeare's own "Richard II." Edward, like Richard, is a king devoted more to his own pleasures than to ruling, and while England goes noisily...
...KAMIHIRA-Durlacher, 538 Madison Ave. at 54th. Few artists use pure stagecraft more effectively or pack their interiors with such sultry silence as this Japanese-American figure painter. Twenty-one recent works include new excursions into landscape, inspirations of a trip through Spain. Through...