... choreography. The hardest thing to do in a large-cast college production is to achieve consistent acting, but some of the acting int he minor roles here is wooden enough to start a lumber company. The problem is overacting. The snooty women are self-caricatures with noses always turned upward ... always super-supercilious. The gods are never believably old and dignified; they always seem like young actors mimicking old people. The town's more despicable characters roll their eyes wildly and seem ready to foam at the mouth. Carolyn Spedden, Patty Fleagle and Jarvis E. Leigh do acquit them...

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... director did a lot in the way of helping prepare actors for realistic roles. His systems helped actors find their inner truth, he wanted actors to live on stage. The next minor theatre style to emerge, more of a theory, was Naturalism. Naturalism attempts to portray all actions on stage exactly as it would occur in real life. It is more emotionally concerned ... on the action, Brecht promoted a style of acting and staging that created a distancing effect. Instead of identifying with their roles, actors were instructed merely to demonstrate the actions of the characters they portrayed. S...

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