Its lineup is full of tales constructed of narration by the people involved — victims, witnesses, police officers — and rickety re-enactments.
In William's narration and elsewhere, Mathias has injected an unwelcome note of crude farce, which combines with a clunky set to make this classiest of tales look rather cheap.
Bowdlerized versons of tales are not effective.
Mr. McCall, who has worked as a choreographer, an actor and a theater director, makes use of all of these skills in "Stark Weather," which is economically and smoothly constructed from detailed gesture, infrequent flurries of larger-scale movement and voice-over narration, telling the tale of the characters and the murders with dispassionate detail.
Qualitative data comprised narrations of interviewees' recollections of cases of puerperal sepsis.
Several probes were made taking the leads from the narrations of the participant.
The Pulitzer-winning playwright's latest work uses live Japanese music, black-clad Noh figures, cleverly rendered puppets and poetic narration to stretch its familiar tale of a dysfunctional family during holiday season.
The narration is also filled with Stingo's self-deprecating tale of his pent-up sexual longings, botched trysts and secret adoration for Sophie.
With moralizing narration by Bobbi Bacha Sela Wardd), a sassy Texan private investigator with a Molly Ivins manner whose own monotonous family drama serves as a frame for the story, "Suburban Madness" sells itself as the tale of a perfect life gone wrong.
Gary's first-person narration grabs us by the collar and drags us through his tale of a life, from childhood to middle-age, on the underbelly of society.
Interactive | From Sketch to Stage: Dressing Dickens Sketches, photographs and narration by David Zinn, costume designer for the 2008 Broadway musical based on "A Tale of Two Cities".
