The current Broadway production of A Christmas Carol utilizes different generations of stagecraft to bring this centuries-old tale back to life.
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Author: Steven Strauss
WWTD
Sometimes, a movie adaptation of a play makes you realize new dimensions to a seemingly straightforward moment of stagecraft in the original production.
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Duplicitous Multiplicity
Here’s the thing about symbolic stagecraft, and really all artistic symbolism:
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Unblockable Blocking
What’s the difference between watching a seance on a stage and watching a seance in “real” life?
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Rituals
Stagecraft is a physical ritual of gesture and word.
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TBC
Given theater’s common two-act structure, the intermission break provides a natural spot to insert a cliffhanger.
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On the 1st Day of Stagecraft
I’ve always loved the word stagecraft.
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What Does It Mean to Belong
Intentionally is impossible to deduce conclusively on a stage.
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Mona Hudson
So Kate Hudson’s in the new Knives Out movie Glass Onion, in which the Mona Lisa painting plays a pivotal role.
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When Bad is Good
Striving for what’s traditionally considered “great” in art is overrated as an objective virtue.
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