Word: bleakness
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David R. Gammons' garish set matches the play's bleak tone. Covered in graffitti and enhanced by slide-projected insults and blurry photos, it is lurid and angry. The lighting, too, adds atmosphere--sometimes intimate, sometimes glaringly bright...
East may strike some as too bleak and profane. The play does not provide much hope that its characters will ever escape poverty, at least not without opening the brothel they plan to open at the end. Many of the men's exchanges are sexist and/or homoerotic. But the script does let its females respond and make counter-attacks of their...
...raining in the hearts of the cast, too. To add to the downpour, the audience before long was weeping tears of frustration. The Cabot House Drama Society production of The Tempest sports some fine acting, thoughtful direction and engaging drama. But these faint mitigating rays fail to illuminate the bleak landscape of the show...
...scene at Cambridge senior centers was not too bleak, even this winter. There were Haitian programs, crafts and Bingo, as well as classes in Spanish, bridge, knitting and crochet...
...success stories. The composer: a little- known Polish avant-gardist named Henryk Gorecki. The music: his Symphony No. 3, subtitled Symphony of Sorrowful Songs -- a transcendental meditation on mortality and redemption for orchestra and soprano. In three slow, slow, very slow movements lasting nearly an hour, it speaks of bleak despair yet sings of sublime hope. Against all odds, this deeply felt, quasi-liturgical piece -- composed 17 years ago but newly recorded -- is captivating a huge public on both sides of the Atlantic, far bigger than most serious compositions ever reach. It is at the top of the classical charts...