Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thinking of food and wondering where the next stop would be, while those in charge tried to figure out which way the slow rolling wheels of justice were to turn. If the confusion had not been so utterly pervasive I would have believed it was all an incredibly sophisticated plot designed to threaten the sanity of any person whose misfortune it is to be arrested. (As it was, I think that it was chaos and confusion completely out of control-though this made the situation no less tempting to madness...
...opera to see good theatre, any more than they go to baseball games for the organ music. Operas performed in this country tend to be done in languages which neither the singers nor the audience understand, mainly to spare everyone the agony of an evening of insipid plot and badly worded dialogue. This is especially true of the comic opera, where a libretto is mainly a skeleton to drape music around, and the plot is filled with improbabilities acted out by impossible characters...
...sort of Gilbert and Sullivan with real music. The producers of the Leverett House Figaro seem to think that there is some theatrical merit to da Ponti's book; if the libretto indeed has any function, it is as a bad example. Even Neil Simon would blush at the plot, the story of a newlywed bridegroom trying to keep his lecherous employer from exercising droit de seigneur...
Generally, the east is not up to transforming two-and-one-half hours of playing time and a windy, winding plot into an evenly exciting experience. In whole episodes they seem to forget about story theatre techniques altogether. In their enthusiasm, cast members often merge narrative with dialogue so that the two are confusedly inseparable. (They could take lessons from Word, who seemed the only one of the troupe to separate the two voices consistently.) True, there are some pleasantly comic moments-mostly in the second act when the "rapscallions" Duke and Dauphin get to pull...
...Harrisburg grand jury has been investigating federal charges of a conspiracy since last Dec. 1, four days after FBI director J. Edgar Hoover claimed in widely publicized Senate testimony that a plot had been made "to blow up electrical conduits and steampipes" in Washington and "kidnap a highly placed government official [later said to be Henry A. Kissinger...