Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...screen than the megahit The Hunt for Red October. Most important to Hudlin and his older brother Warrington, who produced it, House Party appeals to the people it is about. "There's a theater two blocks from our house in Harlem," Reginald says, "and kids come out narrating the plot to their friends and get back in line. It's nice to provide an experience that you wanted when you were that...
Marino also contended that plot summary in a review is useless, and discussing the themes and intentions of a play is gratuitous. But describing the content of a play makes a review coherent, and what is sometimes viewed as "plot summary" are often important illustrative details...
...winding plot, with its endless coincidences, cannot fail to confuse. Cymbeline plays out every cliche about lost heirs, wicked stepmothers, all-conquering love, attempted rape and absurd misunderstandings against the background of the Roman invasion of Britain...
...staged a somewhat less formal drama -- more of an improv, really -- involving sex, lies and videotape in an Atlanta hotel room during the 1988 Democratic Convention. Now the two young actors are co-starring in something called Bad Influence, and guess what familiar items feature in its plot...
...also offer to "inform readers of [the productions'] content." While underscoring your slant toward those who have not seen the production, this statement implies that a summary of "contents" is a substitue or supplement to actually seeing the performance. Plot summary, which takes up roughly a quarter of Adam Pachter's Endgame review, provides nothing more than theatrical Cliff's Notes, inadequate for readers who haven't seen the show, and redundant for those who have. If plot summary allowed you to understand two hours of performance, then drama would never have been invented, and Shakespeare would have been...