Unlike many Hollywood headliners, Washington has authentic stage charisma; here, though, he has been cast in a much younger man's role.
And while Ms. Burstyn and in particular Mr. Glover are naturally arresting stage presences, sprinkling some inviting glimmers of authentic stage glamour over the proceedings, for the most part the acting is flat, or obvious, or both.
She led with others the contemporary rediscovery of Rameau's operas, mounting quixotic single performances at Covent Garden on Sundays: while her strong belief in "authentic" staging did not win through, seeing the dances brought to life and hearing the intricacies of the music on period instruments was a revelation.
The Nord Stage 2 received a Platinum award from Future Music magazine (who described it as "A huge upgrade, cementing its status as the most authentic stage piano/organ/synth available"), and won the 2011 MIA Award for best hardware, and the 2011 MIPA Award for best Stage Piano.
It was a lovely full stop to a night of authentic late-stage tournament drama settled by an authentic modern-day attacking giant.
Novel stimuli generated from a televised gameshow provide authentic (not staged) dynamic displays of emotion in the context of a quantifiable and repeatable game (a one-shot prisoner's dilemma).
I found myself wondering whether they were authentic or staged reconstructions, and it was only a report in the Times this week that revealed that many participants were unaware that they had been recorded or that they would be featured in Feuerzeig's film, that persuaded me that the recordings are authentic.
Punctuated by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's usual passionate and authentic on-stage delivery, there were a couple of major takeaways from the show that stuck with me, beyond the burly prowess of the silicon valley powerhouse's revamped Volta-powered AI processors and professional workstation GPUs.
Together, these findings limit the use of non-transgenic models such as the SAMP mice to study multi-morbidity, in part because authentic end-stage lesions do not form.
Crucially, Mark Rylance, the first artistic director, and Dominic Dromgoole, who now leads the theatre in his second season, are against trying to stage "authentic" productions of Elizabethan drama.
Since naturalistic scenery had led to an excessive clutter of archaeologically authentic detail on stage, the reaction against it favoured simplicity, even austerity, but with a heightened expressiveness that could convey the true spirit of a play rather than provide merely superficial dressing.
