Word: stagehand
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...evening last week a few moments before curtain call, Mahdi and the other actors lounged backstage while an actress with platinum blonde hair and a heavy application of kohl-eyeliner berated a stagehand in the timeless manner of prima donnas the world over. But any sense of show business as usual ended when one of the theater managers came by to collect passports and identity documents. The Syrian government is in the process of tightening its generous residency laws for Iraqi refugees, and the fear of deportation looms larger over the cast than a newspaper critic with a grudge...
...crate of Pabst. She passed cans back through the crowdlike buckets in a fire brigade. Tabs opening and sips slurping, the sound of thirst-quenching and drink-drinking drowned out the pre-show murmuring. At the front of the hall, the last pieces of percussion clattered as the sole stagehand strung a rope between two beams. A pot, a cookie tin, a goblet, and a candlestick dangled, ready for fun.Then, one-by-one, the members of Architecture in Helsinki tromped into the open. In the crowd, whispers rose to roars and cheers into screams. While the guitars were slung over...
...cruel - he once held a hand up for an entire meal to block out the face of Matthew's new girlfriend. What really fascinates Read, however, is the possibility that Guinness was bisexual. He devotes page after page to reports of "lascivious" looks between the actor and some young stagehand, or diary entries of tantalizing ambiguity. But the author's defense of his quest - that understanding Guinness is essential to understanding his art - is shaky, especially since this weighty volume is desperately thin on the actor's actual approach to his roles. It seems almost mandatory now for celebrity biographers...
...auditioning for a musical. The women—dressed as ducks, bees, flowers, and strawberries—dance while singing an original song called “Flowers in the Garden Have No Rights.” Bezreh, who portrays the main strawberry, soon encounters a dominating and burly stagehand who shifts the film’s focus to sadomasochism. The stagehand forces Bezreh to shed her strawberry and submit to pain...
...says. “I didn’t know if it was going to be exploitative and if anyone was going to be exploited I wanted it to be me.” Bezreh easily recruited friends for chorus members, but had trouble casting the dominant stagehand. “He had to have a terrifying presence,” she says. She eventually found an actor at Spooky World, the Halloween-themed amusement park in Foxborough, Mass...