There was no speech-making by the minister, indeed very little folderol at all.
The local voodoo folderol (drums, dancing, rites, etc) borders on comical, and constitutes a lazy, cookie-cutter shorthand for the horror, the horror.
Amid all the extramusical hoopla and folderol, music itself reared its head during 2010.
Abandoning the occult folderol of the conventional Gothic novel, she made her protagonist a practicing "scientist"—though the term scientist was not actually coined until 1834 and gave him an interest in galvanic electricity and vivisection, two of the advanced technologies of the early 1800s.
She's come to Anstruther with Boyter from Number One, but despite their background, there's no Michelin-pleasing folderol.
The sequence is as casual, and somehow as necessary, as Feste's pausing the folderol of "Twelfth Night" to grace us with "Come Away, Death" and his other songs — jester's riffs, of no consequence, except that their swift meditations on mortality and love will linger in the mind's ear long after the play is done.
If there was anything to that six-degrees-of-separation folderol, she must have been equally related to the entire population of the continent.
We feel that works of art should register in their own right, without anecdotal folderol.
But his current monologue, "In the Park" (respectfully directed by Randy Sharp, at the Axis), is so beautiful — so enthralling in its undisguised but never tedious self-absorption, in its command of the spoken word, and in its demand for love — that to remain unmoved by it, or to dismiss it as fairy folderol, begs the question: Why?
And although it's masked by the folderol of the production, the finest work of the evening, it seems to me, is Wallace Shawn's new translation.
His soi-disant "new form" of theatre is both a provocation and an appeal, a direct attack on the commercial folderol that has made Arkadina a star and a plea for the affection that she is so adept at withholding.
