A flimsy frame surrounding a marvelous performance.
They try to gin up suspense surrounding a "risky" performance of "Run the World (Girls)" at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards.
The reception from critics and audiences is hard to predict, partly because of myriad expectations surrounding a Hanks performance, as well as the thin track record of dramatizing journalism beyond the classic "The Front Page".
"Being Julia," the new backstage romance from Istvan Szabo ("Sunshine," "Mephisto"), is a flimsy frame surrounding a brightly colored performance by Annette Bening, whose quick, high-spirited charm is on marvelous display.
"Defiant Requiem" surrounds a complete performance of Verdi's Requiem with filmed testimony from Terezin survivors, clips from a Nazi propaganda film depicting Terezin as a model camp, spoken texts and bits of other music.
The dancers come in and out of view from behind a heavy curtain, with Mr. Hoghe often retreating, ambiguously, to the shadowy border surrounding a warmly lighted rectangle of performance space.
Here's an extact from Ben's feature, which you can read in full here The hub, in Kelvin Grove, has five performance spaces surrounding a courtyard filled with canvas tents upon which people are encouraged to draw and write with markers.
Less than a week before opening night, Mr. James decided to make a major change, transposing an earlier scene, in which two women run and tumble horizontally across a curtain surrounding the performance space, toward the end of the show.
"Room" isn't setting any box office records either but Brie Larson has managed to ride the whirlwind of publicity surrounding her performance as a kidnapped young woman who has her captor's child and raises him in a single room for five years.
The chaos surrounding her performance — frantic preparations, a hyperventilating vocal coach, sneering stagehands — is at once over the top and true to life.
