In an episode set at a carnival you can see what he's going for -- a swirling, neon-lit
roundelay among all the characters' stories -- but he can't quite conjure the magic onscreen.
"
Roundelay," by Mike Brayndick, is about an actress who reunites the production team from her British TV mystery series.
The town band does a
roundelay of the streets at 3 o'clock in the morning to rouse residents.
Love and its vagaries are given a winking makeover in Ruel Bayani's 'Kasal.' But, with tongue firmly in cheek and its heart transparently displayed on its sleeve, Bea Alonzo's romantic
roundelay with Paulo Avelino and Derek Ramsey eventually manages to transcend kitsch and storytelling contrivances after a predictable start.
Ayckbourn's Plays of Chance (
Roundelay, Sisterly Feelings, It Could be Any One of Us) were part of an experiment which began in 1979, ensuring - in all probability - that each performance of these plays would be different.
Motley's time and wish a bit of that literary leisure might rub off on today's diplomatic
roundelay.
911, 939 (2007); Richard Delgado, Rodrigo's
Roundelay, Hernandez v.
It is Honor Klein, one of Murdoch's darkest and most mysterious creations, who brings aspects of the Gothic and primal to what might otherwise be merely a skillfully depicted sexual
roundelay of adulterous misalliances.
We started the current political
roundelay with a TV star trying to become a politician.
And so, in a
roundelay of misunderstandings and misperceptions based on faulty presumptions, the four characters literally spun across the stage--with the furniture, with lampshades and chests of drawers, via Urbanie Lucero's choreography.
But in Sellars' "chamber'' version, this most surefire of Shakespeare comedies has been bleached of every ounce of humor and turned into a strange, hypnotic-erotic
roundelay that evokes what I imagine an Ecstasy trip at a rave might feel like.
Hence this week''s strike, with nice documentaries replacing the unending
roundelay of current affairs, and the headlines still well read by back room staff.