Word: stagecraft
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...there, I found it easy to see his appeal to the young. He delivers stand-up-style monologues, not three-point sermons. Comic riffs alternate with seemingly naive questions--Letterman crossed with NPR'S Ira Glass--until Bell tightens the rhetorical noose and produces tears or thoughtful silence. His stagecraft is legendary. To illustrate a passage from Leviticus on sacrifice, Bell brought on a live goat, which he released--underlining Jesus' role as the last and greatest sin offering--intoning, "The goat has left the building...
...This week's summit had all the ingredients of compelling agitprop: martial pageantry, a red-carpet welcome for Roh, flower-waving crowds, and even a cameo by the reclusive Dear Leader, who, despite looking unsteady and in poor health, nevertheless emerged to play host. But stagecraft doesn't equal statecraft. For now, the dream of a North Korean perestroika remains just that. Roh may have taken a symbolic step toward reunification - but the road ahead is long and far from smooth...
...actor-leader was George Washington. We have trouble thinking of him as theatrical because we're so used to seeing a static version of him on worn quarters and wrinkled dollar bills. But in his day, he compelled the spotlight of public attention and was a master of political stagecraft. All his life, Washington was mindful of his physical presentation, from the uniforms he designed and wore to the way he sat on a horse. One of his great moments as a leader involved a bit of stage business. At the end of the Revolutionary War, he faced a corps...
...Photoshopped realities that we've let go, for good, of our assumption that pictures don't lie. Which means we've come to that moment when it's time to sort seriously through the photographers who work this way and see what we think. Has all this stagecraft left behind much worth seeing...
...risqué content. Pope had her hands full orchestrating frequent set changes. The stage underwent several transformations during the course of the musical: it was made to stand in for everything from a nursing home, to a meth lab, and finally Heaven. The production was a feat of stagecraft. Though “Maude and Harold” billed itself as an “on ice” production, the show’s producers opted not to convert the Adams Pool into a hockey rink. Instead, the performers wore rollerblades and, with the assistance of Anna E. Pasternak?...