Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Originally written for three men, this adaptation for women depicts the lives of two sisters and an interloping bum who disrupts their mundane lives and relationships to each other. Although each actress delves into her character and moulds a clearly defined personality filled with idiosyncracies, the script does not enable them to develop fully into a person with whom the audience can identify. Not only are the characters confined physically in the one room where the play takes place, but they are also limited mentally by the sketchy world Pinter creates for them...
...fact that England gross national product has dropped off by several percentage points and unemployment levels are at unprecedented heights seems not to matter. According to the script, Thatcher is expected to whip into shape the trade unions and other enemies of prosperity the same way she crushed the Argies last year...
...little cliched. Don't worry that her make-up was thicker than Rustoleum, or that her blue eyes could stop you like a rabbit in front of headlights. So what if she made no move without two directors, three camera operators, light men, sound men, make-up men, script supervisor, innumerable assistants with blaring walkie talkies...
...fact, few people on the set saw their work as fine art. "This script is moronic," whispered one crew member, as Anderson and Lang rehearsed one scene...
...flight is called in NASA's abbreviation-prone parlance, is the most ambitious mission to date. Sally and her companions are so heavily "tasked" (more NASAese) that even the energetic Crippen initially had reservations about the workload for his crew. Still, as the mission got under way, the script seemed under perfect control...