Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...coming to Florida to bask in the brilliance of Evitas and first-chair violinists. You're coming for the sun, so set out for Sarasota's Lido Key. With a stretch of motels and hotels and rental places all within two blocks of the Gulf of Mexico, all you have to do is get there with a bathing suit and suntan lotion--and a little cash...
When the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) tabled a crucial portion of a set of free speech guidelines this week, it not only broke with its own traditions, but also called into question what is fast becoming a national trend...
...work is certainly meant to be experimental, and the set is powerful in that it places the audience in a sterile, foreign world. The set consists of three lamps, a piano, and a bed. Black plastic, splattered with red paint, stretches across the floors, the walls, and the furniture. A clear plastic sheet serves as the patient's bedsheets. The set, probably unintentionally, reinforces our distance from Alex and inhibits our empathy...
...silences of Kanter as Kate, Eugene's mother, and Blumenthal as Jack, his father, that represent the play's best moments. Their interaction with one another and with the play's other actors is first-rate. Even the four Mather residents who walked through the back of the set during a climactic scene between the two parents did not manage to spoil the tension...
Sadly, however, the production's cosmetic failings distract one's attention for much of the first act. The two story set in the Mather House TV room is impressive, but much more reminiscent of a college dormitory than a postwar Brooklyn home. Which is fine, because Blumenthal's Jack, who claims to be 55 years old, doesn't look a day over 25. He fits right...