Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great credit, Concealed Enemies, a four-hour, three-part docudrama in PBS'S American Playhouse series, clears away much of that baggage and concentrates instead on one of the most fascinating political mystery stories of the century. The drama, with script by British Playwright Hugh Whitemore, begins on Aug. 3, 1948, the day that Chambers electrified a HUAC hearing by naming Hiss as a Communist. Chambers by then had been out of the Communist Party for ten years, and was working as a senior editor for TIME. The climax is set in a courtroom almost 18 months later, when...
...Glucksman also manages to sustain a fine balance between her character's outward uncertainty and inner strength. Her refusal to play the cliched "strong woman" through the first two acts makes Nora's third act awakening all the more shattering. Instead of emphasizing the potentially didactic element of the script. Glucksman convincingly brings out the deeper, more rivelling dilemma of a woman forced to choose-between family and freedom...
With its panelled walls and paned windows, the Lowell JCR provides a perfect intimate setting. Using suspended doorframes to delineate the rooms and having the actors themselves switch the lights add especially nice touches. Intelligent reinterpretation of a strong though difficult script, and strong to stellar performances make for an evening of excellent house theater...
...used to using as a drug. Blonsky and his colleague Edmundo Des Noes studied the product and made an offer to the ocmpany of a video program that would use the ability of the machine to involve the viewer to actively engage their semiotic interest. They wrote up a script which included several different symbolic choices as part of what was essentially a video game except that the viewer would make choices between turning down a street to follow a flying dollar bill or stopping into an exciting-looking disco where love seems to await...
Amid the colorful stylization of character, several actors stand out Andrea Burke has a beautiful voice and some marvellous moments as Sophia Zubrisky, it is a pity that the script betrays her into mouthing platitudes as the play ends. Burke's contribution is especially refreshing next to the misguided efforts of Benajah Cobb, whose strained portrayal of Leon Tolchinsky cannot be grounded in an sense of the reality of Kulyenchikov...