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...simplicity of the setting focuses the attention instead on the main attraction of Love Letters, A.R. Gurney's script. With a natural flow, the dialogue manages of balance emotional intensity with a wry touch of humor. Hidden behind the polished veneer of perfunctory thank-you notes, the characters' lines express much more than their surface meaning...
Since the play limits itself to the indirect interaction through letters, the characters cannot depend on actions or gestures to help convey the varying depth and quality of their feelings. Both Coleman and Levitt give convincing performances and maximize the impact of each line of the script through careful attention to their tone and inflections in speech. Coleman manages to portray a seven-year-old princess, promiscuous teenager, and troubled, jaded socialite all in succession. Occassionally, she borders on emotional excess; for example, the repeated emphasis on her despicable stepfather's name seems overdone and jarring. But overall, her charged...
...after his junior year in high school. "Well, I was always interested in telling stories...My mother surprised me by sending me to a summer school program at Oxford University where I took a film theory and production class as well as a creative writing class. I wrote a script in May of 1990 and we shot from June to August. It was in Spanish, on video...
...conceptual revolution that is just now sweeping into the clinic began in the 1960s, when researchers started to realize that cancer is a disease of DNA, the master molecule that encodes the genetic script of life. One of DNA's most important jobs is to govern cell division, the process by which a cell makes a copy of itself and splits in two. Ordinarily, cell division is tightly regulated, but a cancer cell divides uncontrollably, pushing into surrounding tissue...
Ultimately the play is further complicated by Ionesco's inability to be succinct. His own direction suggests human rhinos roaming about the stage while Berenger goes on for pages and pages struggling with the invasive political disease that threatens his humanity. Ionesco's script is extremely challenging, yet well-executed by both cast and crew (despite a few slow set changes). For two and a half hours Goor, Ben Davis and Alexis Susman admirably sustain all the energy and intensity their frantic plight requires as they try to stave off the advancing rhinos. But Berenger's ambiguous triumph...