Born into an aristocratic family, Visconti was well acquainted with the arts: his mother was a talented musician, and throughout his childhood his father engaged performers to appear at their private theatre.
It also, admirably, presents standard repertory works in fresh ways that engage performers and audiences.
Two of Mr. Schneider's fellow executive producers, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, are veterans of "Two and a Half Men," and his cast includes engaging performers like Cheech Marin and Lupe Ontiveros.
I feel it engages the performer even on a cellular level.
Cage's influence was a particular liberation, leading Mr. Childs to engage the performer in more or less free music making.
In either case, the result is that Stewart's distinctive qualities are submerged; as engaging a performer as she is to watch, she could as easily have been replaced, in "Personal Shopper," with another of the leading lights of her generation, such as Jennifer Lawrence or Tessa Thompson.
They don't let us take the easy way out -- repeating a production because it was cheap to do so, engaging a performer for their fame rather than for their ability to inhabit a role, creating productions that sound good rather than are good.
This finding possibly reflects retrieval monitoring processes that are more likely engaged in good performers than in poor performers.
But that doesn't matter, because O'Reilly is a warmly engaging performer and the venue is tiny enough for pretty much everyone to feel directly engaged.
There is a view that the ethical problems come from the very top: 17 percent said they expected "their leaders were likely to look the other way if they suspected a top performer engaged in insider trading".
