Word: tableaus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director. Although he has a slight weakness for exaggerated effects, such as the sudden turning on and off of emotion in the half-wit's granddaughter, he is usually calmly imaginative. Such touches as the long pause when the brothers-in-law are left alone together and such tableaus as the final sunset scene are most effective...
...blame. Johnston shifts from the more intimate episodes of the earlier acts to a series of short, emotional scenes underscored with a background of rolling thunder. Not only are these effects too grandiose for the size of the theatre, but the play nearly degenerates into a series of disjointed tableaus which lend little to its meaning...
...18th century moral fable, The Rake's book pointed its moral more in irony than in earnestness, had a minimum of dramatic action onstage, and for its biggest bit of comedy wagged its lean finger at a bearded lady. What the audience saw was an expensive series of tableaus (patterned somewhat after Hogarth's famed engravings) peopled by a number of over-symbolic and under-blooded characters, none of whom evoked much sympathy...