Sentences with phrase «made staginess»

And the cast, which includes Geoffrey Rush, Miranda Otto, Paul Schneider, Anna Torv, Sam Neill, and a remarkable actor named Ewen Leslie (carried over from the stage production), is so uniformly strong that they might well have made staginess work.

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Director Ryan Murphy's expansion of the original play bears the burden of its staginess, despite a hyperactive camera that sometimes makes The Normal Heart feel like an episode of «American Horror Story» (this guy can make a scene showing a few men shaking hands feel like a goddamned Tilt - a-Whirl ride, and he seriously overvalues ostentatious overhead shots).

Using both Super-8 and high - definition video, Ms. Friedman, like Mr. Katz, makes us aware of the staginess of all relationships (not just the Hollywood variety).