This exposition is delivered with the efficiency of a word problem in a math textbook; it's the director's way of laying out the technical puzzle he will toy with for the next two hours, rearranging the pieces with gratifying precision.
In addition to its questionable plot, the play, written by Michel Wallerstein and directed by Padraic Lillis, is structurally flimsy: long stretches of exposition are repeatedly delivered by Andrew speaking loudly into a cellphone.
Exposition dumps are delivered at lightning speed, as director Rawson Marshall Thurber, whose earlier work includes the daffy Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, is well aware that watching tiny Kevin Hart wail and fret as mountainous Dwayne Johnson bashes secret agents in the head is what everyone has signed up for.
(Gates) 'Women of Will Mixingg casually delivered scholarly exposition with intensely rendered performance, this impassioned exploration of Shakespeare's heroines by Tina Packer traces their evolution through their language.
(Jason Zinoman) 'Women of Will' Mixing casually delivered scholarly exposition with intensely rendered performance, this impassioned exploration of Shakespeare's heroines by Tina Packer traces their evolution through their language.
(Isherwood) 'Women of Will' Mixing casually delivered scholarly exposition with intensely rendered performance, this impassioned exploration of Shakespeare's heroines by Tina Packer traces their evolution through their language.
(Laurel Graeber) 'Women of Will Mixingg casually delivered scholarly exposition with intensely rendered performance, this impassioned exploration of Shakespeare's heroines by Tina Packer traces their evolution through their language.
There were a few out-of-place flourishes: a waiter presented a bottle of balsamic vinegar and delivered an exposition on its "twenty-year aging process" before pouring a thin stream over an unexceptional appetizer of artichokes.
By sidelining the backstory and exposition (which is expertly delivered by the game's voice actors, who include Kiefer Sutherland and Troy Baker), Metal Gear becomes a far more lithe and streamlined production.
The last few seasons, despite the occasional burst of ambition or sheer awfulness, followed a predictable pattern: The show set up a Big Bad or two, delivered leaden exposition via internal monologue, and then served up big confrontations at the end of the season.
