Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bambi was the year's best-selling video, and the crowds at Disney World fell off only slightly. The biggest star of the season was a 10-year-old kid you never heard of, whose movie, Home Alone, made studio heads cry -- especially the ones who turned down the script. Gary died on thirtysomething, but Nancy survived her cancer, and Bart Simpson passed all his courses...
Director James Burrell has done no justice to Moliere's classic comedy, The School for Wives. His rendition of the play successfully butchered a superb script of romantic irony. The performances and staging were both plagued by novice efforts and an inability to cope with the script's complex dialogue. In the end, the play was humorous only by chance and by way of the strength of Moliere's brilliant writing...
From the beginning, the main characters were unable to convincingly handle the script's complex rhyming dialogue. In the first scene, Arnolphe discusses unfaithful wives and meek husbands with his friend Chrysalde (David Gerster). Little does Arnolphe know that he will soon be the victim of the cuckoldry he so readily mocks...
...with neither friend nor wife. Although the audience has done nothing to deserve such treatment, this production forces us to share similar agonies. With a few significant exceptions, the cast and crew of The School for Wives have done little more than make a mockery of Moliere's fine script. Like Arnolphe, Burnell should be looking for new ways to get the results he wants
Overall, the play is strongly acted. Kim's impassioned portrayal of Proteus is outstanding--she contrasts well with Kuan's sappy, lovesick Valentine. Kim's scenes with Li are usually plausible, but the two actresses seem hesitant to display the physical affection called for in the script. Perhaps Li is too soft-spoken--she plays her character as a dreamy, mopey girl, one whose bold voyage to Milan seems incongruous. During her disclosure of the plan to reveal Proteus' duplicity, Li says, "Poor Proteus, thou hast entertained a fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs." This line does...