It cramps the actors and necessitates lengthy, laborious scene changes that disrupt the flow.
Frequent and laborious scene changes don't help the pacing, either.
The alternative is either laborious scene-changes during extended blackouts, or serious rewriting.
The show is dark, the dialogue laborious, and the scenes pretty in that cool and cold way that increasingly defines "serious" entertainment.
AS the book advances and Pretend Neal keeps vomiting and getting into ludicrous fights (with, among others, Sid Vicious, Michael Stipe and Lester Bangs himself), these scenes become ever more laborious and repetitive.
(All three plays toggle back and forth between locations, a matter of a quick cut in the movies but a laborious business in live theater when the scenes are as brief as they often are here).
In its way, it satisfies; at least "World War Z"'s laborious reshoots steered the thing away from generic scenes of mass destruction, toward old-fashioned human scale zombie vanquishing problem solving.
These confidently expressive touches are undermined by laborious pacing in the first two acts, in particular, where the scenes between Uncle Peter and Covey fall flat, while the newly married Nora Clitheroe seems far too self-conscious for this company.
Poetic touches, like a scene in which the performers dance with a wheelchair, are laborious.
Since 1999, when the F.B.I. computerized its fingerprint database, its crime lab has matched about 1,200 crime scene prints, more than five times the number found in 15 years of laborious manual matching, said Stephen Meagher, the head of the lab's latent print operation.
