Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...stage has been set, the issues clearly drawn, the need apparent. It is now time...
...mist of uncynical dream and deception. And this leads to the main reason why the audience feels depressed rather than exhilarated by a Chekhov comedy. The audience can rarely indulge in detached laughter at the characters' expense, because there is no comic spectacle of abstracted human follies on stage, only a concentration of suggestions and perceptions of errors which the audience understand no more clearly than the characters themselves. Or Chekhov...
...friendliness was there last Saturday night when James Taylor-tall, almost lanky, with his shirttail out, wearing orange socks and sandals-walked onto the Sanders stage. He sat down and gazed at the packed house. He hesitated, and after a simple, sheepish "hi," he took the audience into his mind for what later seemed the shortest of times...
Taylor is very much like Neil Young in his stage presence, in the way he tells stories and brings an audience to him. But he is not as boyish as Young: he has been down a harder road. In "Something's Wrong," which he wrote under the influence of New York City, he sings to himself...
...stage, Taylor plays quietly-his motions subdued and even. He accompanies himself with a single guitar. This solitude fits him well, because his music draws entirely from within. It is an autonomous force and thus carries more impact when James Taylor plays it alone-without the double-tracking of the studio, without percussion or brass. Indeed, these elements seem superfluous once you've seen the music played in its pure form...