The Last Word Obituaries are stories about our time, portraits that reflect an era through the prism of an ended life.
One, shot from the back of a moving vehicle, is a real-time portrait of a woman running a 7.25-minute mile, with on-screen numbers keeping count.
The three short dramas that make up "The Story of a Family," which opened on Tuesday night, are both the starkest and most sentimental of this lovingly painted life-and-times portrait, directed by Michael Wilson in a co-production of the Hartford Stage and the Signature Theater Company.
As much as any major American city, these towns provide a snapshot of our national story, a real-time portrait of the way we live now.
Maybe more than anything else TGE creates a fascinating and almost real-time portrait of contemporary Manhattan, a place deeply insecure about the future yet still clinging to seemingly anachronistic trappings of wealth and class.
The image is at once reminiscent of U2's early albums Boy and War, where an adolescent boy (Peter Rowen, the younger brother of Bono's lifelong best friend, Guggi) appeared on the LP covers, and a real-time portrait of where and who the band mates are today.
In these programmes, participants used smartphones to record the location of health and sanitation concerns, medical facilities and unsafe areas, and through geo-tagged photos and videos, a real-time portrait could be drawn of risk factors in these neighborhoods.
Participants used smartphones to record the location of health and sanitation concerns, medical facilities and unsafe areas, and through geotagged photos and videos, a real-time portrait could be drawn of risk factors in these neighbourhoods.
For a time, the portrait of Lady Irma is fittingly replaced by one of Lady Enid, new wife to Lord Edgar.
