Making a movie about Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska matches Nebraska’s artistic ethos.
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Doubling
oh, Honey and Inter Alia revolve around the same central premise:
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Thousand Words
What if too much of too much theater is too verbal?
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Krapp’s Last Space
The NYU Skirball Center seems like an unlikely venue for Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape.
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Restoration
Punch and Urchin can be interpreted as presenting diametrically-opposed arguments regarding the utility of restorative justice.
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Intermissioning
There are two types of intermissions.
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Postbill
Hot take: Playbills should be handed out at the END of a performance.
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Cannot Sit Back, Cannot Relax, Cannot Enjoy
Even though Honor was not produced by The Wooster Group, the production answered an age-old question for my fellow Wooster faithful:
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Do the Twists
Ceilidh utilizes an early twist to set up the audience for the emotional gut punch that is the climactic second twist.
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Substitution
The vast majority of subtitled productions project the translated text line by line onto screens around the stage/house.
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