Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...
This performance of Whose Life is it Anyway?, powered by Tom Chick's performance, has its flaws, but Uphoff deals well with a slightly problematic script. One hopes the Eight Ball will continue to host quality productions...
...where Romeo and Juliet is timeless, West Side Story is dated. It is very clearly set in New York City of the 1950s amongst teenage social turmoil and a flood of new immigrants. And as a result, Eggar's modernization of the script meets with only partial success...
...choreographer Christine Van Kipnis write in the program notes: "Our intent is not to realistically portray any particular time period or location; rather we are using dance, drama and music to reflect on and explore different aspects of social tension." The problem is that nothing short of a new script can release the story from its period setting. No matter how dark and violent Van Kipnis and Eggar choose to make the story, stylized fight choreography will always evoke memories of Robin kapowing the Riddler in the old Batman series. And the war council in Doc's drug store seems...
...script is updated to include profanity (at times it seems every fourth word the Jets speak is "fuck") which soon becomes grating. Pop culture references are good for a cheap laugh, but the "Nintendoes" and "Telemundos" are more cutesy than clever. Making the Jets co-ed adds an interesting sexual dynamic and some talent to the Jets line-up (particularly an electric Eisa Davis as A-rab, the "cool" Jet). But, even today, there are very few female gang members...