The 2006 is ripe, fresh and dry, with classic cedary cabernet flavors gently underscored with a bit of oak.
Blair Brown, the talented actress who directed this production, has gently underscored the play's oddball comic touches.
Mr. Kosashvili, working from Mary Bing's sensitive, economic screenplay and with the fine cinematographer Paul Sarossy, makes the most of the story's social environment, gently underscoring its claustrophobia.
Bonnie J. Monte, the director, who notes in the program that she has wanted to stage the work for 30 years, provides a production that gently underscores the notion of creating theater.
And besides, the gender element, with its implicit argument for tolerance, gently underscores the play's noble if not exactly complex or original theme: that love ought to find a way and that it generally does.
And a tale of an Icelandic farmer who wanted to convert his barn into a dance hall, and expected to draw huge crowds — and perhaps elves — from his desolate surroundings, is supported with music that gently underscores the peculiarity of his plan.
For all the glimmers of sugar-coated schadenfreude in the women's clipped exchanges, gently underscored by the terrific performances, the play ends on a moving, affirmative note that is far from the bleak ellipses or dark diminuendos that conclude so many of Beckett's plays.
The vignettes guide the reader gently, almost poetically, underscoring the already resonant quotations, rather than making the words seem like lofty thoughts that our duty calls us to appreciate.
Mr. Del Tredici sets text with a natural melodic flow more common to pop than to contemporary art song settings, and he underscored the gently humorous twists in Joshua Beckman's nine connected poems.
Statistics underscore these contrasts.
Constantine is right to underscore it.
