Sentence examples for minimal scenery from inspiring English sources
In 1979 Balanchine revived "Apollo" in a reduced version, removing its minimal scenery, cutting its prologue and revising its ending.
First of all, the Old Vic's Hamlet had minimal scenery on the stage and looked rather poor in comparison with the magnificent scenery typical of Russian presentations.
From the beginning, Mr. Martin made it clear that he planned a bare-bones production with minimal scenery, and with costumes suggested by the actors.
Otherwise, the staging, with minimal scenery and dim lighting, rendered the darkness of the times, then and now, with grim accuracy.
It also presents a half-dozen rudimentary or "bare-bones productions," which have minimal scenery, costumes and lights, and focus on the text and the action.
L YUBIMOV'S THEA-ter is a theater of synthesis - a metaphorical mixture of language, images, lighting, sound, music and minimal scenery that are as beautiful as they are powerful.
With minimal, emblematic scenery and a maximum of kinetic energy, the production conveys the vastness of the narrative, but the adaptation is overloaded with exposition and historical information.
Kunqu uses minimal props and scenery so that greater emphasis is put on the actors' movements.
The significant difference between the two comedies is that "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is rendered as a deliberately tatty affair with patchy costumes, minimal scraps of scenery and actors who broadly attack their characterizations.
The staging is full of familiar Wilson touches: the geometric backdrop illuminated with changing, saturated colors; minimal bits of scenery turned into landscapes; ensemble members crisscrossing the stage in straight intersecting lines; characters frozen in certain poses, and some stylized, angular hairdos.
It was strange amid this season to visit Ballet Across America, the biennial series of programs at the Kennedy Center in Washington, where most companies were using a production style far closer to the old City Ballet model: little or no scenery, minimal costumes, seldom a hint of narrative or character-playing.
