Alongside describing the donor as 'gift-giver', the majority of mothers explicitly designated the donor as 'present' in their family narratives as part of the story of where their child 'came from'.
They also come with an action-adventure narrative, part deep history, part archaeological romance.
But the narrative – part truth, part wilful misunderstanding – was deeply flawed.
Instead, it's part film, part written narrative, part oral tale, and, as a whole, something that eludes easy description.
Part Horatio Alger narrative, part screwball comedy, the 106-minute movie is Mr. Laverents's version of a Ken Burns-style documentary.
(Telecharge) www.roundabouttheatre.org HASHIRIGAKI -- Heiner Goebbels's multidisciplinary work, part narrative, part tableau, that draws from Gertrude Stein and the music of Brian Wilson.
Other proposals, like a request to cut federal payments to teaching hospitals, are hidden or obfuscated in the narrative part of the budget.
The narrative part of the syllabus revolves around four women — Emily, 70; Maddy, 76; Alicia, 50; and Jenny, 30 — all comfortably well-off and living in a quiet Berkshires town recalling, in the case of the older three, the miserable limitations society imposed on their mothers and grandmothers, and to a lesser extent, on themselves.
I like the narrative part.
Now, collaborators Steven Banks, Robby Barnett, Renee Jaworski, Matt Kent, Itamar Kubovy, and Michael Tracy have created an evening-length work of shape-shifting behind a scrim, so that what you see is part dance, part film-like narrative, part pop-out fairytale.
