Word: sketching
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...most ingenious is The League of Gentlemen, a genre-defying black comedy that combines the sketch humor of Python with the small-town horror of Twin Peaks. Set in the fictional English hamlet Royston Vasey, it intertwines the stories of more than 60 characters, male and female--all played by three men--from the abusive counselor at the town unemployment center ("I know they've put monkeys in space, but do you really think they'll have one driving a fire engine?") to the reactionary proprietor couple of a local shop (named the Local Shop), who plot to stop...
...most entrenched institutions. Kellerman's creation aptly skewers everything from the scientific method to modern fashion. The remarkably versatile cast, comprised of, surprisingly enough, three men (John Keefe '01, David Modigliani '02 and Jonathan Steinberger '00) and one woman (Catherine Gowl '02), flies through the two hours of sketch comedy with veteran timing and delivery. Each of the short plays runs about 20 minutes and covers a single topic; science, government, gender equality, higher education and higher-still fashion are sequentially caught in Kellerman's crosshairs. While at times the text can be a bit heavy handed in making...
Starr used the twenty minutes allotted for the speech to sketch the reasons he thought the Senate had not sustained President Clinton's impeachment...
Featuring the highest hype-to-payoff ratio in sports, the 126th Run for the Roses will pack all its punch into two glorious minutes at Churchill Downs, cloaked by the affecting melodrama of a daytime soap, with a cast of characters to match. Here's a thumbnail sketch of this year's edition...
...text, though it generally seems like an ill-conceived improv sketch, does have it high points. Likewise, the cast bravely struggles against the banality of their lines, occasionally achieving something not totally unlike entertainment. Jared Greene '03 was delightfully serious as the misguided mystic, John, and James Crawford '03 nearly succeeded in ripping a character from the script's lifeless caricature, David. While they managed to salvage a performance from their script, others were simply overwhelmed. Caitlin Butler '03 (Tess) and Mia Lozada '03 (Malvolia) saw their talents go to waste, trapped within the confines of one-joke roles. Butler...