Word: stiltedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clive Donelly's direction becomes stilted and overdone in its efforts to keep the action visually diverting. He falls back on the English Diagonal School of photography, which keeps framing the actor with chair legs, room corners and other straight lines. The size of the room strictly confines movement, and...
A reading is a good way of tapping the resources available to a House drama society, since sets, costumes, and the usual weeks of rehearsal are not required. And "Everyman" lends itself to such a production. A reader may not have time to create a character, but he can create...
Carnegie Hall was packed, and as Heifetz stepped onto the stage with the light precision that is the Heifetz way of doing things, the audience rose in tribute. Piatigorsky followed, carrying his Stradivarius cello with a giant's jauntiness, as though he were about to put it under his...
In the "friends, Romans, country-men" scene, Ritten-house is forced to shout at full voice for about five minutes to a crowd whose mercurial temper is painfully, if not laughably, stilted. They roar disapproval run around in confusion, roar approval, fidget and scratch as Antony continues and like well...
As Cowboy, the connection, Carl Lee turns in the best performance of the movie: he is bitter and cool with his eyes, his hands, his whole body. And in the role of Jim Dunn, the filmmaker who follows the others into the john for a fix, Roscoe Browne conveys insecurity...