Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most productions of the play whip up the comedy and farce furiously, and abridge or soft-pedal the Claudio-Hero plot. Other things being equal, this may be the best solution--it is certainly the easiest. But Rabb has favored or scrimped no element in the play; he has lavished as much care on the serious as on the comic and farcical aspects. Consequently we can best see the play as it really is: when the lines soar, this production soars; when the writing flags, so does the production. The director's decision was daring, dangerous, and difficult...
...chief wonder of Alba was that Donizetti's music again surmounted the absurdities of plot. In last week's production the orchestra sailed in whirlwind rushes through Donizetti's lush score; as whispered duets and trios alternated with bellowed choruses, the opera built to its lyrical climax in Act II with a love duet for Amelia and Marcello. Critics found the duet as fine as anything in Lucia di Lammermoor, proclaimed Alba "worthy of Donizetti's genius." But they reserved their warmest praise for 29-year-old Conductor Schippers, who had triumphed, one wrote, "with...
...attraction of this strongly appealing book lies not so much in the plot as in the author's passion for the city. Rome, says Belgian Novelist Curvers, is "like a woman lying in a shallow bowl of marble who, leaning now on one elbow, now on the other, constantly lifts one hand toward the blue bowl of the sky." Since that hand holds offerings-the offerings of art-the book also contains more genuine insights into art than a shelf of criticism. Of the Sistine Chapel: "Poor Michelangelo-to have been put to so undignified and superhuman a task...
...Ronde-styled plot revolves around a desiccated young country solicitor named George Links who is bored with his marriage. To get away to London one night a week, he pretends to be in psychoanalysis; actually, he rents an attic room in the home of England's most famous literary evangelist and quickly manages to seduce the evangelist's wife. After that, the book turns into an old-fashioned game of musical beds: George's wife, learning of the affair, permits herself to be seduced by his oldest friend; the friend's mistress comforts herself by propositioning...
Room at the Top. The novel by John Braine, one of England's Angry Young Men, has a plot about a social climber which is centuries old, but all the same it comes out one of the real British movie triumphs...