The cast may be more professional than their first-timer forebears, but they also appear to be acting throughout, particularly in scenes that involve the clunky exposition of franchise-building backstory.
Beyond the fright and the funny, Mr. King tried in "Kingdom Hospital" to push beyond his customary action-intense scenes toward more character-based drama, especially in scenes that involve his alter ego, Peter Richman.
One of the early adopters was James Poniewozik, the TV critic of Time magazine, who offers his own definition of sexposition: "It's something more than gratuitous or ample sex and nudity in a show – it's using that sex to divert the audience or give the characters something to do in scenes that involve a big download of information or monologue.
It might also have been helpful if there were holes cut into the scenery, as it was difficult to reach around the tall cardboard backdrops and onto the stage, particularly in scenes that involved more than two characters.
Write short scenes that involve each of your characters.
Accept that you're reading and writing this with mixed motives.' " Baker began "The Fermata" in part because he had stuff, including scenes that involved a lawn mower, dildos and a cat, left over from "Vox," but the novel's central fantasy — the idea of stopping time — is one that has been with him since he was 12 or 13 ."I imagined a small box with a toggle switch," he said.
Come with me a on journey of guyliner, hair over one eye, clip-on fringes, studded belts, Bebo, self-harm and the hammed-up homoeroticism present in any scene that involves a lot of pretty young men.
Come with me on a journey of guyliner, hair over one eye, clip-on fringes, studded belts, Bebo, self-harm, and the hammed-up homoeroticism present in any scene that involves a lot of pretty young men.
They are in a slow motion scene that involves only the two of them, blissfully unaware that they are enjoying the lack of responsibility that comes with early love.
And the director, Jack Cummings III (a founder of the Transport Group, which presented the piece), makes impressive use of the nine cast members, who often, in scenes that don't actually involve them, form a kind of silent Greek chorus, moving through and coloring the action.
Numerous fMRI studies have shown that PHC is preferentially engaged in memory tasks that involve scenes, spatial or context information, whereas PRC is preferentially engaged in memory tasks that involve object or item information (see Ranganath and Ritchey, 2012; Ritchey et al., in press; for review).
