Word: staging
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Neglect and indifference at such a crucial stage can have devastating consequences. Consider the case of Sid. (Names of the children in this story have been changed.) When he was three months old, his parents left him with the maid while they took a five-week trip. Upon their return, his mother noticed that Sid was withdrawn, but she did not do anything about it. When Sid was nine months old, his mother left him again for four weeks while she visited a weight-loss clinic. By age three, Sid had still not started talking. He was wrongly labeled feebleminded...
There's a lot of posturing in director Woody Hill's staging of Harold Pinter's Betrayal. Rather too much posturing, actually. Given an intriguing theme and an even more intriguing framework within which to stage the play, Hill opts for a stark presentation suffused in its own bitterness. The director seems to strike a flat emotional pitch in all the players of this production, and most emotional nuances are, as a result, lost. In Betrayal, rigid staging unfortunately replaces audience interpretation with directorial determinism...
This sort of stage artifice is Betrayal's central problem: every poignant gesture is extended beyond its natural limits, every subtle shade is obliterated by the stark interpretation. Even the harsh lighting creates a visual over-simplification on the stage. Betrayal is a first-rate script with an ingenious plot, and the acting in this production is generally admirable. But its black and white interpretation leaves us longing for a touch of gray...
...bothered to discuss them with us. Adrift in the temporary calm between Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and the shootings at Kent State, we struggled to survive the transition from high school to college with as much grace as we could muster. Being a freshman was a necessary stage of growth, like the chrysalis before the butterfly...
...reminiscences taped after he was ousted in 1964 but withheld by his family for years to prevent reprisals, the late Soviet ruler sheds startling light on how Stalin set the stage for the bloody purges of the 1930s, a wartime overture to Hitler and Castro's bid to launch nuclear missiles against...