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At the beginning of the second act, we see Josephine dancing licentiously for a group of soldiers.
In the second act, we see Vera years after she appears in a movie with Gloria, in what turns out to have been her greatest role.
In the second act we see Tanner fleeing by car to Spain to escape the clutches of the pursuing heroine, Ann Whitefield.
In the second act, we see the Red military advance and the appearance of food and plenty with each liberation from tyranny.
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Behind the fragmented Dublin tenement of the first act we see massed ranks of silent soldiers.
In the first act we see Fritz and his friend, Theo, hosting a wild party at which the romantic Christine and her more realistic chum, Mitzi, are the guests.
Drawing on classic fables of escapism and wish fulfillment (and informed by Bruno Bettelheim's 1976 psychoanalytic exploration of fairy tales, "The Uses of Enchantment," among other sources), "Into the Woods" isn't so much a rethinking of fairy tales as a thinking-through of them — in the first act, we see wishes coming true, and in the second we see the consequences of those wishes.
In the second act, we next see Kenneth and Sandra as prosperous professionals vaingloriously pursuing their careers and with two teenage children, Jamie Benn Rosenfield and Rosee (Zoe Kazan).
The great moment comes in the third act, when we see the future members of a Tory cabinet first trying to hush up a sexual scandal and then gradually disowning Trebell.
It is precisely because Frayn establishes the people that the famous second act, in which we see the farce from a backstage perspective during a matinee in Goole, is more than a balletic exercise.
The unsettling transformation of the third act, in which we see the world through the eyes of the dead, makes him go deeper; at times, the music becomes uncharacteristically turbulent and grand.
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