Maybe, a "shift of scenes" is sometimes appreciated by the patients.
These two basic elements, splendidly enhanced by Oleg Kozlov's lighting, define every shift of scene, conjuring both hard realities and airborne fantasies, both claustrophobic confinement and tantalizing openness.
Modelling a shift of qualities.
He wrote these stories that basically no one knew what to do with they were full of weird grammar jokes, sudden shifts of scene, and a kind of dream-logic that was sometimes funny if you figured it out, and sometimes deeply disturbing.
Anna Mackmin's lickety-split production – brightly coloured set, 1980s music, snappy shifts of scene – zips the action along through some 20 years.
Even if one wishes the play were longer and Osborne told us more about the historical context, Jimmy Walters' production handles the multiple shifts of scene with great ingenuity.
Larraín, like Jarmusch, hardly delves deep into the creative process, but, where "Paterson" is tranquil to the point of inertia, "Neruda," with its jumpy shifts of scene, its doses of casual surrealism, and its mashing of high politics against low farce, struck me as more of a poem.
This highly symbolic fact not only suggests the initial shift of the scene of the intellectual life from places like the Academy to the cloisters of Christian monasteries but also marks even more a change in the dramatis personae.
The characters talk to one another and to us; they move backward and forward in time; they jump from scene to scene with a mere shift of their bodies; their language bounces with both a rhythm and a pulse.
We become aware, that is, not of a settled scene, but of a shifting landscape of hypothesis, imagination and argument.
