Sentence examples for austere stage from inspiring English sources
Minghella hopes the austere stage may be a foil to extravagant emotion.
Before the publication of "Letters Home," the Plath legend was brief and contained, a taut, austere stage drama set in a few bleak, sparsely furnished rooms.
Mr. Wernicke, who also designed the sets and costumes, placed the opera in Edwardian times and opted for a visually austere stage.
Handsome, austere stage pictures were provided by Adrianne Lobel, the set designer; Dunya Ramicova, the costume designer; and James Ingalls, the lighting designer, all of whom work regularly with Peter Sellars.
In contrast to the austere stage setups of previous U2 tours, Zoo TV was an elaborate multimedia event.
In contrast to U2's austere stage setups from previous tours, the Zoo TV Tour was an elaborately staged multimedia event.
Domingo sang it when Daniele Abbado's austere staging, in Alison Chitty's understated designs, was new in 2013.
The austere staging, directed by Anne Bogart and seen on Saturday afternoon, includes arresting visual effects: Giulietta's first appearance on an upper level of the stage coinciding with Romeo's exit below her, for instance.
A movie about a playboy king and his cloak-and-dagger court, set in a time of dissipation and spectacle, requires more austere staging, lest the whole flamboyant sensibility be ladled on uncritically -- and too thick.
At the same time the austere staging of Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos" by the Canadian director Robert Carsen — sparing with color, devoid of décor yet rich in the way movement and gesture dovetailed with the words and music — was holding audiences spellbound.
The Potomac Theater Project, a politically minded troupe presenting this show in repertory with Anthony Minghella's "Politics of Passion," has already produced it twice, and the director Richard Romagnoli provides few frills this time, with an austere staging that involves projections on the back wall, including wonderfully scabrous cartoons (by Gerald Scarfe).
