It is encouraging that something as frankly bizarre as "Cats"—which eschews all but the barest narrative, and glories in silly rhymes and an art-for-art's-sake absurdity appeals to so many.
All this, in Guy Hollands TAGG theatre production, is brilliantly realised in bare-bones narrative style by Gemma McElhinney, David Carlyle, Beth Marshall and Keith Macpherson, working at high velocity and accompanying each other with amplified sound effects.
My friend Sarah, a professional pianist of great talent, was going to do the musical telling of the story, and my job was simply to underline the action with a bare-bones narrative.
From these bare bones of narrative, as in ballet, a world emerges.
The connection is left bare, dispatched with a narrative hand wave that nonetheless seems calculated, at least, to set up a sequel.
Those are the bare bones of a narrative that proceeds in fits and starts.
But much of what Levin's narrative laid bare as it related to the CIA's torture program — and Mitchell's role in particular — was cultivated from news reports, books,and DOJ legal documents, not from documents the committee obtained from the CIA.
Multilateral meetings customarily begin with a round of opening statements from every party in the room, and Zarif and Jubeir, the Iranian and Saudi foreign ministers, laid bare their radically different narratives.
The movie itself transforms the barest outlines of a narrative — patients from a mental institution escape from a bus and form a society apart in an abandoned farmhouse — into a low-budget frenzy of theatrical invention.
First, Emily Mann's script does a nice job of trimming Singer's urban picaresque tale almost to the bare bones without scarring the central narrative.
