Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the musical talents of these performers lack the finesse that might have added a scene of professionality to the play, Schwartz's direction and Emily Brodsky and Roger Wong's production provide scenic portrayals and novel adaptations of the original script...
More importantly, director Hans Canosa does nothing to resolve the confusing images of the play. In his over-enthusiasm to create unusual visual images, he complicates an already problematic script...
Zucker: Very little. Maybe 5 percent or something like that. We really spend a lot of time working on the script...
...still funny; it's still funny!" Something you just come up with one day on the set--you might decide the next take that it's not so great. Obviously, things do come up, and we do add things, but really we pretty much stick to the script...
...play was not really redeemed by the acting, for the simple reason that there was none. The cast seemed to spend less time acting than contorting. To be fair, they did not have much of a script to work with. It sprouted such inspiring lines as "I love you and everything is beautiful"--enunciated in various shades of monotone by a variety of people--and "I have lost her. Give her back to me." By trying to use such cliches for ironic ends, Artaud was created the worst kind of cliche--in effect, a self-parody...