Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, the artistic director of the Colt Coeur company, the play deals with four lives and three intersecting entanglements — past, present and wished for — in the course of 80 brisk, dialogue-fueled minutes at Here Arts Center.
In these days of overworked air- conditioners, one should never discount the cooling power of brisk, breezy dialogue.
In Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 2, as biting brass figures; shapely string and woodwind passages; dark, angst-ridden chordal writing; and brisk contrapuntal dialogues all competed for attention, every instrumental line shone through clearly.
His brisk and believable dialogue may seem unsurprising in a playwright.
Brisk and loopy dialogue exchanges are shot through with swirling power plays and familiar but not-quite-identifiable tensions.
Yet these minor drawbacks are far outweighed by Steinhauer's brisk pacing, sharp dialogue and convincing evocation of a paranoid subculture.
The dialogue is brisk, the structure tidy, the characters laudably complex.
Over nine hours when ideas were encouraged and dialogue was brisk, most dampened was the skepticism that had pervaded much of the helmet industry in recent years.
This soundtrack is mediocre and at times distracting, but the dialogue is brisk and the plot is aces.
