Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clubs battled to a standstill for the first quarter, but then began to follow the script which the Crimson envisioned. Pat Conway sprinted past the Brown defenders for a thirty yard gain to the one, and Matt Donnelan plunged over for the tally...
...till Sandra gets tired of bringing up father and the customers get sick of a script that finds sublimated incest cute...
...chaps who like to yuk it up in various sports that catch their fancy. At this year's outing the game was basketball-and against the court-clowning Harlem Globetrotters, no less. In the first half, the Globetrotters laughed their way to a 20-0 lead. But the script always calls for the Taverners to win. And so Prince Philip, 42, a Taverner reserve and part-time Gunga Din, donned white waiter's jacket and served the visitors champagne in silver cups. While the Globetrotters reeled, his mates stole one of the baskets. That bit of gamesmanship gave...
These two transitions, around which the play revolves--through no fault of the actors--are not uniformly smooth. The weakest scene in the play involves the transition from fear to calmness in Ill. The script has actor Medearis writhing on the ground in terror at one moment and existentially accepting his fate minutes later. Medearis is asked to change moods with impossible speed, and the scene is unconvincing...
Director Keith Cushman admitted the problems of this method in requiring his actors to memorize their most dramatic lines. But the scripts interfered with even the less significant sequences; this play emphasizes meaningful glances between characters and around the "room," furtive peeks at the script can easily break the mood...