Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Howards End," and we've seen her do this kind of role before. But look for her in the adapted screeplay category--it is the one sure thing this year that Emma Thompson will win for her "Sense and Sensibility" screenplay. Some critics complained that Thompson's script was too streamlined, jettisoning too much of the book and updating parts, but she has primarily won kudos for turning Jane Austen into today's hottest writer...
...brilliantly acted, with such simplicity that it is hard to imagine that he people on the screen are actors. In fact, in order to preserve the genuineness of the acting and to add real emotion and suspense, director Jafar Panahi would not allow the actors to read the full script before shooting. Adding to the film's documentary-like quality is the fact that it was filmed within a span of a few hours on location in Tehran on New Year...
...some barely a minute long. Many involve set and costume changes, and as a result the audience is left facing an empty stage entirely too often. The many jumpy scene changes accentuate the fact that the play is too long and too fragmented. This shortcoming is inherent in the script, but a more technologically sophisticated production might have made the scene changes more quick and less obtrusive...
Soong and Lee give good performances, but they can't rescue this play from its own sluggishness. Hopefully, Lee, a talented first-year student, will have a better script to work with in his next Harvard production. "Yankee Dawg You Die" explores an important and interesting subject; however, it often feels more like a lecture than entertainment. It is entertaining as far as lectures go, but you will certainly find yourself checking your watch...
Despite a largely unsatisfying and unnecessarily complicated plot, "All's Well" puts on a good show for those willing to sit through one of Shakespeare's worse plays. The Quincy House production does as best as can be expected with a faulty script and limited resources. At the end of the play, as is typical of Shakespeare, the King states that, as actors, the cast's only desire is to entertain. Although there were some unsatisfactory complications to the play, as far as this desire goes, "All's Well" lives up to its name...