Word: scripting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...actual delivery of Alexander's lecture concerning the kidnapping and murder of her two infant daughters. Instead of the private recollections of a horribly wronged mother, we hear the carefully controlled rage of a public speaker. Instead of the mountainous stacks of books called for in Kennedy's script, we see a nearly empty classroom (brilliantly conceived by set designer Molly Hughes in a cream white just this side of what we might expect the walls of an interrogation room to be painted...
...These changes have their drawbacks. Gone is the brilliant juxtaposition of public speech and private thought that makes the original script so intriguing. Gone is the overwhelming presence of words in the play-a lecture practiced in a library, cascades of written and spoken letters all desperately trying to make sense of a violence too heinous for language. But what takes the place of these lost elements is equally intriguing. The Ohio State Murders in its current production is a lyric exploration of emptiness, an absolutely breathtaking amalgam of hauntingly lonely lighting, pale-colored costumes and a score that...
...lack of passion. It is a violence so ethereal that it is almost impossible to name, though a play like The Ohio State Murders makes it impossible to ignore. Ultimately, Stern and Kennedy were right to draw this most troubling layer of human cruelty out of an already troubling script-and to draw it out with such beautiful, stark imagery that we cannot help but watch in horrified awe. Although it is Alexander's children who are murdered in Kennedy's play, it is Alexander herself that the American educational system tries to kill though an unnameable suffocation. And lest...
...have supported TECH from the beginning, but I've been surprised by the diversity of its reception. The need, I thought, was clear. Suppose I want to pursue a distance education project, to set up a hyper-linked classical lexicon, or script an international math-help bulletin board to study the way children learn. An institute, rather than a computer science affiliation, would provide the perfect opportunity...
...DeNiro gained weight for Raging Bull. You put on 20 pounds for Texasville. You don't even read the script before you hit the Devil Dogs...