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In rehearsals, most directors tell the actors, "Begin when you're ready".
She has the actors begin sitting in chairs at the front of the stage, as though for a play reading.
In this "Wonderful Life," the actors begin standing in front of microphones, scripts in hand, but they are soon moving about and interacting in lively, realistic ways, with the help of only the radio-age equivalent of sound design.
"But the staging matures almost by the minute," he writes "and when the actors begin consistently hitting the right notes, Mr. Korder's mosaic of youthful dissatisfaction achieves a jazzy sense of melancholy".
(The focus on guys in search of girls strongly recalls Mr. Mamet's breakthrough play, "Sexual Perversity in Chicago".) But the staging matures almost by the minute, and when the actors begin consistently hitting the right notes, Mr. Korder's mosaic of youthful dissatisfaction achieves a jazzy sense of melancholy.
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Mr. Eisenbach gave notes to the actors, beginning with Polonius, who took exception to the direction.
Slowly, as this new play, "The Plough and the Stars," was in rehearsal, the actors began to object to lines.
On cue, the actors began to make strange trilling sounds, ejectives and glottal stops and rolled "r"s: Na'vi.
The punters' group exercises stopped and the actors began to interact with each other and issue individual instructions.
As the actors began to sing and prance about on elevated platforms throughout the room, the ushers encouraged the audience of 150 or so to dance.
As editors from Rolling Stone, Glamour and O: The Oprah Magazine opined on the serious business of buzz creation, the actors began chomping loudly on handfuls of potato chips as their cellphones started ringing furiously.
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