Other aspects of the roadshow presentation reinforce the stagey theatricality of the production.
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We've seen him denigrate CNN and BuzzFeed and do that weird stagey press conference.
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It's a heightened, sometimes stagey take on a trashy exploitation flick, but it is mesmerizing.
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You can fast-forward past the team challenges and the stagey visits to Trump-branded properties.
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The Hateful Eight, his latest work, is a talky, stagey production, featuring a small cast and just a few cramped locations.
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Fortunately, Owen, though very stagey, is pretty good, offering a rock-solid take on the character heavily inspired by Lionel Barrymore's radio work.
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Miranda's sunny smartass-for-hire comes across as a fraction broad and stagey at first, like he hasn't quite shaken off the Mary Poppins vibe.
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But there's too often something phony and stagey about it, and I worry that energy lavished on this is rerouted from more relevant, substantive endeavors.
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There's tap-dancing, keytars, underwater tracking shots, and a stagey, dialogue-free closing sequence that might just be one of the most impressive moments caught on film this year.
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It's a labored but necessary bit to get everyone current, but it can't shake the stagey feel of the writing, a red flag that indeed hints at future narrative abuses.
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It was by far the worst-directed episode of the season, staid and stagey without any of the visual verve David Nutter and Miguel Sapochnik brought to the previous two episodes.
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Of course, the finale of Love at First Kiss is equally childlike in its simplicity: Josh proposes to Roxanne, in the same stagey set where they met, now lined with rose petals and candles.
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Her expressiveness, which comes through not just in her delivery but her large brown eyes and sly grin, isn't explicitly stagey and over the top, but more subtle and sweet, fitting in a variety of eras and archetypes.
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So when Hugh Skinner, who plays young Harry and thus a young Colin Firth, imitating Firth's mannerisms, launches into a full-scale production of "Waterloo" in a French restaurant to woo Donna, it's stagey, yes, but it's awfully fun.
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Shows like Forensic Files and The New Detectives covered one case (or sometimes more) per episode, relying on stagey re-enactments and soporific interviews with local law enforcement to sketch out the rough outlines of a murder or a disappearance.
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Some elements of the exhibition feel unnecessarily stagey, such as a vitrine in the middle of the room which houses various objects from the making of the animation, including a picture of Pitt drawing in the rainforest and some musical composition notes.
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The Program is a more self-serious Blue Chips, in other words, only with the star power of Matt Nover (and Shaquille O'Neal) swapped out for a group of actors who were by and large too old, bulky, and stagey for Beverly Hills 90210.
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But it's also why, on the rare occasions he's had to publicly attempt a role contrary to his nature — calling for healing from a script after a mass shooting, for instance — he sounds as stagey and inauthentic as an unrehearsed amateur doing a sitcom cameo.
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Then a theme song swelled, an earworm that would echo in your brain like an advertising jingle: "Here's the story, of a lovely lady…" Some names appeared alongside corresponding actors, who often turned to smile — or brood, depending on their character — in a weirdly stagey way.
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Directed by Kenny Leon (whose credits include the live TV productions of "Hairspray" and "The Wiz") from the play by Christopher Demos-Brown, "American Son" disgorges a whole lot of information in a compact timeframe, in a manner that feels conspicuously stagey and a trifle forced.
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Part-rockstar from space, part-theater brat, Gaga is showy and stagey from her head to her diamanté stiletto-booted feet, and a custom built stage in the middle of an enormous football field with a captive audience at her will is absolutely where she belongs.
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And we might go and make it look a little too real, and we'd have to edge it back, and then it looked a little too stagey, and we'd have to edge it back somewhere in the middle, and that process happened between our preview screenings and the festival screenings.
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For all the milking of memories and stagey-seeming "behind-the-scenes" moments, the opening episode is a treat for TV and set-design nerds, getting deep into the weeds about the art of scouring the internet and secondhand outlets to find the precise piece of turn-of-the-'70s kitsch.
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There's a great deal of false umbrage and stagey taking of offense, but mostly there's a sort of surreal density to it all, both in the dense-meaning-stupid sense and in the way that every single silly thing is discussed in the same key and at the same volume as everything else.
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The Sbreen; The Five Who Fell. A Russian Vampire. Stagey Bits In This Film. "Eleven Who Were Loyal" a Picture With Mary Nolan.
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Retrieved: 29 August 2016. In a recent review, John Pym described Serena as "stagey" and, "(a)... not very taxing mystery."Pym 2004, p. 1055.
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The opportunity was taken en route to bombard targets in the Andaman Islands (Operation Stagey).The force for Operation Stagey included aircraft carriers , , cruiser , destroyers Vigilant, Virago and frigates. On 14 March, Volage, and the destroyers Saumarez and formed Force 70 for a reconnaissance of Langkawi Sound and sailed for the Malacca Straits (Operation Transport). The reconnaissance task was abandoned soon after and, instead, Force 70 patrolled for enemy shipping. The British ships bombarded the railway works at Sigli, on Sumatra, on 17 March and resuming their anti-shipping sweep, without success, off the Nicobar islands.
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The title of the album makes a reference to Stagey Bank Fair, an agricultural based affair held in the early 20th century at Stagshaw Bank in Northern England. As Shenoy explains, legend has it that, over the years, the farming aspect dwindled and the fair became notoriously associated with gambling and drinking. After it was discontinued in the 1920s, the phrase 'Stagey Bank Fair' became a common euphemism for 'mess'. The title is a metaphor for a place that was once a joyous fair, but is now a disheveled, chaotic experience, kind of like adulthood can be.
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The chaotic nature of the Stagshaw Bank Fair with masses of people and animals and stalls inspired the Newcastle colloquialism "like a Stagey Bank Fair" to describe a general mess. The American county fair is featured in E. B. White's Charlotte's Web.
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Two days before Christmas, a bogus insurance investigator brazenly conducts a meticulous small-town bank robbery. A stagey but suspenseful set-piece reworking of the Scrooge story in which an urbane, but ruthless, thief induces the complicity of a fastidious bank manager with threats against his family.
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Coverage shots are needed because the long take master shot looks static and stagey to modern audiences. The establishing shot is one kind of coverage shot. It helps to place the viewer in a physical context, and avoid a claustrophobic feel to the film. Cutaway shots are considered part of coverage.
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Scholar Stephen Orgel describes Cukor's film as "largely miscast ... with a preposterously mature pair of lovers in Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer, and an elderly John Barrymore as a stagey Mercutio decades out of date."Orgel, p.91 Barrymore was in his late fifties, and played Mercutio as a flirtatious tease.
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More recently, scholar Stephen Orgel describes Cukor's film as "largely miscast ... with a preposterously mature pair of lovers in Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer, and an elderly John Barrymore as a stagey Mercutio decades out of date."Orgel, p.91 Barrymore was in his fifties, and played Mercutio as a flirtatious tease.Tatspaugh, p.
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Thalberg felt he had his "finger on the pulse of America. I know what people will do and what they won't do," he said. His judgment was not always accurate, however. Thalberg's bringing Broadway productions to the screen to develop higher picture standards sometimes resulted in "studied" acting or "stagey" sets, notes Flamini.
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Like most of Fred F. Sears' work, with its poor production values and stagey plot, Sky Commando was not well received.Wheeler 2005, p. 57. Reviewer Hal Erickson, in a latter day critique, observed that the film was notable for presenting Duryea in a sympathetic role, and for the presence of former headliner Frances Gifford.Erickson, Hal.
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Seven Doors to Death was hampered by a limited budget and stagey production values, and as a B-movie, was not reviewed by traditional sources. In a more recent appraisal, the film did not stand up well. Reviewer Bill Barstad called it "one dull mystery" and "(a) ... mediocre mystery plot with a weak screenplay."Barstad, Bill.
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All shots in a given scene were somehow related to what was happening in the master shot. This is one reason some of the films from the 1930s and 1940s are considered "stagey" by today's standards. By the 1960s and 1970s, the style of film shooting and editing shifted to include radical angles that conveyed more subjectivity and intimacy within the scenes.Ascher (1999), p.
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The Spinning Image called it "a creaky diversion with stagey acting and an obvious lack of funds to open it out, yet the strength of Jacobs' yarn was such that it showed through even the most impoverished of tellings." On his website Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings, Dave Sindelar commended the film for its character development, climax which he called "suitably tense and eerie".
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Crichton said he "had liked the idea of a complex machine being destroyed by a simple machine", but when attempting it, "it seemed stagey and foolish", so the idea was dropped.Crichton p. xix He also wanted to open the film with shots of a hovercraft traveling over the desert, but was unable to get the effect he wanted within a limited budget, so this was dropped as well.
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The video's frenzied, stagey, exaggerated, self-conscious style and acting is reminiscent of YouTubers (individuals performing asides to a camera, "hyperactive and narcissistic"), though the video predates the service. The video focuses less on its story than as a fast-paced blur of events: "somewhat incomprehensible, strangely mesmerizing, and overstimulating to the point of exhaustion". Its script borrows from television reality show and talk show language, its actors wear homemade costumes.
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Kate Muir, writing for The Times in 2017 wrote that the film "creaks a little with age and its crew of young actors sometimes seems stagey. Yet it has ebullient energy". The reviewer for the BFI's Screenonline website described it as having "done more than perhaps any other film before or since in putting Liverpool on the cinematic map". It assisted Liverpool in becoming the second most filmed city in the UK after London.
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She found his "concerns throughout are abstract and philosophical, though his tone is unpretentious […]. Very like Borges, Julian Barnes has a predilection for tracing leitmotifs through a variety of metamorphoses". For Oates, "Given the principle of repetition, of permutations and combinations, it is inevitable that some of Mr. Barnes's prose pieces are more successful than others.[…] the second piece, The Visitors, […] is wholly unbelievable, and the head terrorist speaks a stagey, mock-Hollywood lingo".
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His contribution to the history of Italian theater is now widely acknowledged, especially with regard to his influence on 20th century comedy. His iconic character Gastone became a byword in Italian for a certain type of stagey snob. His satirical caricature of the Roman Emperor Nero (created in 1917 and later the subject of a 1930 film) was widely perceived as a parody of Benito Mussolini, although it may itself have influenced the mannerisms of the Fascist dictator.
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77 Three years later he married the journalist Anne Scott-James; they had known each other for many years, although at first she did not much like him, finding him "stagey" and "supercilious". By the 1960s they had become good friends, and after Karen died the widowed Lancaster and the divorced Scott-James spent increasing amounts of time together. Their wedding was at the Chelsea Register Office on 2January 1967."Osbert Lancaster", The Daily Telegraph, 3 January 1967, p.
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His album Rumbadoodle was nominated for the Best Pop Instrumental Album at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards held on 10 February 2013 in Los Angeles. He was nominated along with Larry Carlton, Dave Koz, Gerald Albright and Norman Brown, and the eventual winner Chris Botti. He was the first ever Singapore citizen to be nominated for a Grammy. His follow up album, A Stagey Bank Affair, was chosen as the Critics's Pick for Best Album of the Year by Jazziz Magazine.
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Punch (21 July 1888) where his performance in the London premiere of La Tosca was described as "stagey and old-fashioned" in contrast to the naturalness of Sarah Bernhardt.Punch (21 July 1888) p. 28 Considered by Jerome Hart to be the most emotional of all Sardou's plays, La Tosca's critical reception was in sharp contrast to that of the opening night audience. The Parisian critics roundly attacked the play with Francisque Sarcey calling it a "pantomime", as did Jules Lemaître.
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They both chase him out of the house. Pa Snavely, as portrayed by Fields, serenades a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer with "The Fatal Glass of Beer", a mournful song detailing the evils of foul drink and bad companions in the big city. A zither accompaniment recorded for the film seldom matches the vocal, because Fields subtly changes keys when the zither does not, resulting in a humorously off-key effect. Fields emphasizes the stagey satire by striking various poses and being overly theatrical with the dialogue.
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The stagey early part of The Lost Zeppelin was dominated by a banquet scene and actors engaged in dialogue from static positions. The "shoddy production" values described by aviation film historian Michael Paris in From the Wright Brothers to Top gun: Aviation, Nationalism, and Popular Cinema (1995) were typical of the early sound film era.Paris 1995, p. 111. The Zeppelin in The Lost Zeppelin is recreated in stock footage of flights, and the use of miniatures as well as a mockup of the gondola.
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This, rather than the attraction of Ochiltree's "racy vernacular", led Mayhead to declare himself as great an admirer as any of this character. A. N. Wilson wrote about Ochiltree's "strangely moving (though so stagey) wisdom". John Buchan noted that he was depicted with "minute realism" as a typical Scottish beggar, and yet was sometimes able "to speak words which, though wholly in character, are yet part of the world's poetry". He approvingly quoted another critic as saying that Ochiltree is the most Shakespearean figure outside Shakespeare.
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The screenplay was also written by Mander in conjunction with Alma Reville. The First Born enjoys a good critical reputation, being seen as stylistically inventive and one of the best examples of a trend in British cinema in the last years of the silent era. This trend was towards a more mature, sophisticated and naturalistic presentation of dramatic material, eschewing the tendency in earlier silent films towards overly stagey and melodramatic acting styles involving wildly exaggerated gestures and facial expressions.The First Born Dixon, Bryony.
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Shaw was consciously engaging in a long tradition of rewriting Shakespeare for modern values and tastes. Shaw had expressed the standard Victorian view of the play in 1896 when he wrote that it was "stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order". After altering the ending, Shaw changed his mind about the bulk of the play, but remained convinced that the last act was a disaster, writing in 1946 that it was "one of the finest of Shakespeare's later plays" but "goes to pieces in the final act".
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" Erdeljanović categorizes the extant portions of the film into 16 distinct episodes, eleven of which were shot outdoors and five of which were shot indoors. With the exception of the Battle of Mišar, the film's remaining scenes featured static camerawork, simple framing and no cuts. "Many scenes, particularly interiors, look "stagey" in the style familiar from much early cinema," the film scholar Roger Smither writes. "On the whole, action is filmed in medium shot, with next to no camera movement and no close-ups.
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The dire script wrings every possible cliché out of the situation. The biggest mystery is why this stagey stuff was filmed at all, and why a cast of this calibre should have bothered." Texas Monthly said: "Out of Season cannot be tolerated at any time of year. If ever a project called for an executioner, this was it, and the presence of Redgrave, Robertson, George and the underrated director Alan Bridges, should not fool anyone into thinking that this frail mash note to father-daughter sex is a Certified Art Film.
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Arun Shenoy (born 30 April 1978) is a Singaporean musician and songwriter. He is best known for his Grammy Award nomination at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards for his debut full-length studio album Rumbadoodle released in 2012. "Bliss", the first song from his Indian Fusion project released as a single in 2013 was featured on a worldwide Exclusive First Look on Grammy.com. His second album A Stagey Bank Affair, released in 2016 was chosen as the Critics's Pick for Best Album of the Year by Jazziz Magazine.
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It has been noted that Kulur's performance on the flute is fast and melodic with influences of jazz, yet rooted in the Indian traditional style. On 1 July 2016, Shenoy released A Stagey Bank Affair, his second album and his first as a collaboration with The Groove Project, a group that consists of 13 other artists. The album is a concept album in the musical style of 'Bansuri Funk' that in addition to featuring 14 primary musicians in the group, also features a four person horn section and nine person string section.
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Prior also praised Dominic Treadwell-Collins for turning the show around and making the 30th Anniversary a success. Writing in the Telegraph, Michael Hogan noted that Thursday's hour long episode was slow and stagey to reveal Jane as the killer. Hogan noted that the reveal was the "marquee event of a masterfully managed anniversary week;" and loved the nostalgic touches throughout the week. He also noted that despite being 88, June Brown was still superb, but felt that there were a few too many sub plots and that although Kathy Beale's return was gasp out loud it was superfluous to the story.
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Billboard critic Timothy White called it a "bittersweet serenade." In another review from the publication, Larry Flick called it a "deliciously fruitful collaboration with... Foster". Flick further added in his review: > Foster's flair for musical melodrama inspires Madonna to turn in what is > easily her most assured and full-bodied vocal performance to date. Amid a > swirl of strings and Spanish guitars, she spews the song's declaration of > romantic independence with a theatrical verve that perfectly matches the > stagey, potentially overpowering tone of Foster's arrangement without flying > over the heads of her youthful top 40 following.
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The Wizard of Oz Creatively, however, the rapid transition was a difficult one, and in some ways, film briefly reverted to the conditions of its earliest days. The late '20s were full of static, stagey talkies as artists in front of and behind the camera struggled with the stringent limitations of the early sound equipment and their own uncertainty as to how to utilize the new medium. Many stage performers, directors and writers were introduced to cinema as producers sought personnel experienced in dialogue-based storytelling. Many major silent filmmakers and actors were unable to adjust and found their careers severely curtailed or even ended.
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These are big songs, determined to deliver photo- > finish climaxes every few seconds. The Guardians Kate Mossman gave the album three out of five stars, saying: > With stagey soundscapes more Meat Loaf than Springsteen, and lines > overloaded with postcard imagery ("Your star-spangled heart took a train for > the coast"), you struggle to find the energy till the third or fourth > listen, when "Heart of a Girl" (co-written with Daniel Lanois) and "From > Here on Out" (which sounds just like the Eagles) reveal themselves to be the > sweetest, most sincere explorations of a kind of US rock that will always > raise hairs on the necks of those who like this sort of thing.
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She proves that we were right, when we saw her in films like The Apartment, to know that she really had it all, could go all the way with a serious role. Watching Miss MacLaine and Mars work together is enough to justify the movie, whatever you think of its urban paranoia."Chicago Sun-Times review TV Guide rates it 3½ out of a possible four stars and calls it a "well-written if somewhat stagey character study [with] one of Maclaine's best performances."TV Guide review Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic called this "a film of authenticity, of delicately realized intangibles: small-scale about large issues, truthful without settling for honest-to-God TV fact.
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The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars.Allmusic listing accessed October 7, 2015 All About Jazz awarded the album 3½ stars, stating, "Money In The Pocket is a remarkable album—remarkable in that gives absolutely no hint of the shape shifts that would transform Zawinul's work a few years later. The first of three albums he recorded for Atlantic, it's a conventional mix of mid-1960s hard bop and soul jazz".May, C., All About Jazz Review, February 4, 2010 The Guardian's John Fordham noted, "this session reflects the driving grooves of that popular soul-jazz style – so there are a lot of backbeats, repeating riffs, horn-harmony wailing and stagey stop-time breaks".
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Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture (1941) 1962, p 101 "and it is scarcely conceivable that such mediocrity was possible only two decades after the death of Michelangelo". Its disproportionately large attic, a billboard for the triumphant inscription, has an unbalanced stagey flatness; its proportions may be unfavorably compared to the Arco Scalette, Vicenza, erected in 1576, probably designed by Andrea Palladio (illustration, right). Arco Salette, Vicenza, 1576, attributed to Andrea Palladio, for comparison The allegories are resolutely biblical, avoiding classical pagan allusions in publicising the modern pope who demolished the Septizodium to make way for his avenues linking the major Christian monuments of Rome, the pilgrimage basilicas. Any mostra had its practical aspect in providing public water supply for its rione (the city's administrative areas).
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On 5 April 2012, it was announced that Smith had decided to pull out of the musical, and would no longer be playing the title role, delaying the production of the show. From September to November 2012, Smith played the title role in Hedda Gabler at the Old Vic, winning the 2013 Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Play. Shortly before collecting her award at the ceremony on 17 February 2013, Smith performed the original song "Stagey and Proud", which was written by Chris Passey and Amy Carroll. From September to November 2013, she starred alongside David Walliams in a West End production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, as part of Michael Grandage's season of plays at the Noël Coward Theatre.
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George Bernard Shaw, who criticised the play perhaps more harshly than he did any of Shakespeare's other works, took aim at what he saw as the defects of the final act in his 1937 Cymbeline Refinished; as early as 1896, he had complained about the absurdities of the play to Ellen Terry, then preparing to act Imogen. He called it "stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order". He later changed his view, saying it was "one of the finest of Shakespeare's later plays", but he remained convinced that it "goes to pieces in the final act". Accordingly, in Cymbeline Refinished he rewrote the last act, cutting many of the numerous revelations and expositions, while also making Imogen a much more assertive figure in line with his feminist views.
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In 1942 he shared with Emeric Pressburger an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay of 49th Parallel, starring Raymond Massey and Eric Portman, (released in the United States as The Invaders). Ackland is credited with discovering British-American actress Sally Ann Howes, the child of neighbour Bobby Howes, when he insisted that she audition for his 1943 film Thursday's Child, which he both wrote and directed. He renewed his association with Pressburger in 1946 with a screenplay for the stagey, now forgotten thriller Wanted for Murder, mainly as a film vehicle for the talents of Eric Portman playing a man obsessed by his father's role as the public hangman. In the same year he made the first adaptation of Georges Simenon's novel Newhaven/Dieppe, directed by Lance Comfort, with another overwrought performance by Robert Newton, set against swirling studio fog.
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These errors or misinterpretations added to other lofty claims that Britain had sufficient aircraft in production and was quite ready to fight to counter the overwhelming numbers of Luftwaffe raiders; all purposeful exaggerations were intended to bolster morale. Public reaction was generally reserved, as British audiences saw The Lion Has Wings as patently simplistic and patronising; yet, it was a commercial success. Powell later derided the project as 'an outrageous piece of propaganda, full of half-truths and half-lies, with some stagey episodes which were rather embarrassing and with actual facts which were highly distorted...' Author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer recounts in his Berlin Diary on 10 June 1940 that he thought the film 'very bad, supercilious, and silly'. He was shown the film at the German Propaganda ministry while working as a CBS Radio news reporter.
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The critic for The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that the play was: > Notable as a rare instance of an Australian playwright's attempting to > represent the tension between good manners and bad intentions. Porter has > taken advantage of the colonial time lag in 19th century Tasmania to allow > his characters to clothe their generally poisonous motives in an 18th > century decorum, and to make use of an unusually hemstitched and hand-sewn > type of language. The easy and tempting criticism to make of this play is > that it is stagey and derivative (with a "Rebecca"-like storm and an > Ibsenesque tower of a most clumsily symbolic kind) and that it is as > fniitily stocked with curtain lines as anything George Miller might present > at the Neutral Bay Music Hall... Much depended in this televised version on > its tactfulness in making the most of the play's richly theatrical srrokes > without emphasising their potential absurdities. In this Porter was well > served.
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