Mr. Watt, a bassist and singer who used to play in the Minutemen, the Southern California punk band, is streaking across the continent, playing 50 one-nighters with only two days off, performing his third unified concept album "Hyphenated-Man" (Clenched Wrench), a mess of agitated character sketches based on Hieronymus Bosch figures.
Mr. Dudgeon (how apt a name for an actor playing an agitated character) was terrific in his subtly evoked recognition that nothing he says to his wife will get her to respond in a way that will satisfy his need to possess her.
In the classic tradition of Italian opera, the two characters are pitted in an agitated duet, with offstage chorus.
Adolescents who become hyperactive, suddenly agitated or who act strangely out of character may be reacting badly to the drugs, experts say.
There is an awful lot of telling on top of the showing; characters spread their arms in agitation while they say the things that show how agitated they are, or turn round in surprise to say how surprised they are.
It is more turbulent in design, with agitated draperies, expressive faces, and a complicated ornamented character, particularly in the backgrounds.
The characters are often in a state of restless, agitated motion, confused about where they are going and what they will find when they arrive.
In Bolaño's ten novels and three story collections — all completed in his torrential final decade, before he succumbed to a chronic liver ailment that he suspected would seal his fate — characters go through life in a state of agitated migration.
That script, by Drew Larimore, locks each character into a single mood — Caroline is the agitated city woman, Hal the hokey outdoorsman — passing up any chance at complexity or inventive comedy.
Many of the Chopin nocturnes have middle sections marked by agitated expression (and often making very difficult demands on the performer) which heightens their dramatic character.
