Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nora Theater presents The Private Ear, a production compelling enough to appeal to the most disheartened romantics. Director George Reyes has breathed commendable theatrical intensity into this script, sparing the audience from a potentially boring one-hour circus...
Reyes cleverly skirted disaster on this outing. Peter Shaffer's script for The Private Ear rarely distinguishes itself from other "boy is too shy to get the girl" narratives, but the director chose three exceptional actors to portray the play's only characters...
...depths of the Adams House basement, Austin Grossman shares his vision of one man's mid-life crisis. His humorous, though often inconsistent, script is complemented by polished acting and directing. And flashes of strobe lighting add to the Uses of Enchantment...
Grossman's script has some delightfully lighthearted segments. Richard describes "the basic love equation"--"We set the value of love as an arbitrary constant...Figure has an affect sum as a real and not an integer of the domain zero less than L less than two." Later, when teaching Raymond to fight, Darryl explains, "Every human being is born able to hunt and kill to survive. But you don't see it much in the suburbs." Grossman's script captivates during these moments when the dialogue is not overtly philosophical...
...report to the Russian parliament early in October that he had tried a dozen times to reach the vacationing President Boris Yeltsin at the Black Sea resort of Sochi to ask what was to be done about a looming crisis, but failed. In reality as in fantasy, the script was singularly unfunny. As the first snows start to fall and a difficult winter looms, Russia is paralyzed by a web of incompetence. The wave of hope that swept the country at the fall of the Communist Party is giving way to resignation, despair and bitterness. The Keystone Kops behavior...