The tug-of-war between Moldova and Transnistria is partly over whether education east of the river should be in "western" (Latin) or "eastern" (Cyrillic) script.
Beyond the performances and Stephen Massicotte's elegiac script, what stands out in the Two Rivers production is the expert blend of stagecraft, masterminded elegantly by Daniel Goldstein, the director.
The script says the boys go swimming in the river.
The planetoid was not named in the film, but some drafts of the script gave it the name Acheron after the river which in Greek mythology is described as the "stream of woe", a branch of the river Styx, and which forms the border of Hell in Dante's Inferno.
She also became an uncredited "script doctor", polishing and rewriting screenplays (among them The River Wild, The Wedding Singer and Sister Act) for small fortunes, though she insisted jokingly on being referred to as "a script nurse.
"A car would pick me up at 8am and take me to the site where David and I would work on several versions of the script [six in total], while looking out onto the river".
The possibility of river blockage as a consequence of the re-activation of the landslide was investigated using a GRASS GIS-based shell script that simulates the landslide material descent and computes the dam and lake sizes.
More recently, the comeback vehicle "River of Gold," featuring Rin Tin Tin as a stalwart 1860s Kansas farm dog, was derailed in 1994, partly by competition from a script called "Snow Dogs" (relation to the 2002 Cuba Gooding Jr. comedy unclear).
The first step for Mr. Kanouse, then, was to begin studying sign language with Deanne Bray, a member of a team translating the "Big River" script by William Hauptman from English to American Sign Language.
RIVER TO RIVER, June 17-July 15.
