Word: stiltedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Radcliffe Chorale Society was indeed brave in taking on the Verses From the Book of Ruth composed by Claudio Spies in 1959. What mars the work is its stilted literalness, and the performance added to this monotony. Narrator Lee Bradley did not tell us a story: she just read...
The narration is introduced by a stilted device: the narrator is the guardian angel (or conscience) of the woman, and he chats with her like a second-rate Whitman. The woman herself, Barbara Boxley, is a good actress, but her role is so uneven and inconsistent that she cannot make...
La Belle Inertie. Unhappily, in the case of Moreau, the quest for ancestry gets a bit out of hand; his is a case in which a painter has been more ignored than unknown, since his work has long been embalmed in the musty, state-run Musée Gustave Moreau...
Chris Hobson, who plays a Brechtian sage and narrator whom Gardner has rather artificially grafted on to his plot, is properly stilted, abstract, and didactic, but he seems totally out of place. This role should be cut.
In the midst of all this stolidity, two seedy musician-pimps (former companions of Rosemary) stroll along the streets improvising songs that comment on the story as it progresses. They add the only touch of fluidity to a stilted manikin act. And their songs are fine street ballads.