Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Famous American playwrights Sam Shepard and Joe Chaikin this week put their script writing calibration on hold and cancelled a Loeb Drama Center workshop where their new script was to be performed...
Neither touching nor humorous in their dimness, they can engender only one emotion: disgust. Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden and Wallace Shawn are among those trying to find some overtone or undertone they can resonate to, but the script is so dull and the direction so lacking in dynamics that they are reduced to aimless noodling. The depression they feel in their bereft state will quickly communicate itself to any viewer...
Little preparation will go into the atual performances; props will be minimal and actors will have the scripts in hands. People will come in the Loeb Ex and see scenes from the original plays enacted informally on the intimate, yet mostly empty, stage. Thus fat Wang says stie flas gotten more response from non-Harvard students than from actual undergraduates. After postering the Loeb and other places on campus, she says she has received calls from Harvard administrators and even a script from a senior at Philips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, who won the Young Playwright's Horizon Award...
This might have worked if Foley and scriptwriter Chris Columbus hadn't been so heavy-handed Hannah as Tracey gives a fairly convincing portrayal of limp, youthful resentment. Unfortunately, the script prevents her from displaying any other emotions as she faces the choice between her institutionalized life and the freedom of being with Rourke--choosing differently each chance she gets. Tracey's life at home and in school is represented so shallowly--her bedroom, for example, is decorated in flowers like a cheap innocence metaphor--that her indecision seems fickle rather than agonized. Her passion for Rourke takes...
Dreyfuss and Stapleton attempt to compensate for much of the confusion created by the film's disjointed and cliche-ridden script and, to a great extent, are successful. Dreyfuss' depiction of the sex-hungry artist whose ambitions are constantly thwarted by his brainless girlfriend (Nancy Allen) make for some memorable moments. More notable is Stapleton, who potrays the archetypal needling grandmother who inevitably winds up alone. The scenes with Stapleton provide the best moments in the entire film...