In a lesser company, Dan Lauria's revisionist Scrooge, with the actor's hysterical insistence on exploring the text (what about Tiny Tim's emerging sexuality?), altering the lines and changing the ending, would steal the show and leave no one shortchanged.
Described by Moore as "one of the most fundamentally important acting experiences I ever had", the group spent four years exploring the text and giving intimate performances to friends.
The revised New Testament "could serve people a way into exploring the texts," he said.
"This time we've been able to just explore the text, with ideas zinging around and everyone able to build on the ideas of others, and Mary-Louise has been a great part of that," Mr. Sullivan said.
In our adaptation, we explore the text trying to respect the coherence of the narrative, the evolution of the characters, the environment of the play, and the richness of its language.
Like people in other nations, Chinese Shakespeareans, scholars and practitioners have continually re-explored the text of this great tragedy and attempted to derive further insights that might be used either to reinforce orthodox interpretations or to challenge established doctrines.
Here, in exhibits designed by Pacific Studio and Weatherhead Experience Design Group, a touch screen explores the text of the treaties made with the region's Indians; a playful sound and light show evokes the cataclysmic Seattle fire of 1889; and a two-person video "game" means to demonstrate the injustices of the state's 1948 hearings on "un-American activities".
Imagine being able to stream yourself into a performance: sit next to Simon Russell Beale, pause the action, walk around the stage to get a better look, listen to commentary from Doran, physically explore the text and the set.
It is revealed that her instructions to the 'competent students' instead encodes the Engagement meaning [entertain], as she frequently encourages them to explore the text on their own or with a partner and to then share information that is relevant for class discussion.
Guyer proves to be a skilled guide in navigating its perilous currents by giving us a nuanced translation that explores the text's most secluded coves". "Marcel Mauss wrote The Gift to refute the contrast between free gifts and self-interested markets.
Arguably its premier literary example, the Book of Revelation, is what forms the basis of De/coding the Apocalypse by artist Michael Takeo Magruder, a new exhibition which explores the text's doomsday musings through a variety of different digital mediums.
