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  • “There was so much anger, so much screaming and door-slamming,” royal housekeeper Wendy Berry said.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • And sure enough, Mesa is a comedy -- but not, says director Joey Tremblay, in a "yuk-yuk, door-slamming" kind of way.

    My preview of Globe Theatre's production of Mesa... ewillett 2009

  • “There was so much anger, so much screaming and door-slamming,” royal housekeeper Wendy Berry said.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • Ian Talbot's production does all it can to keep the plot boiling with an orgy of door-slamming, and there is a good moment when tapdancing bellhops and pirouetting chambermaids remind us that everyone in America thinks they're in show business.

    Lend Me A Tenor, The Musical - review 2011

  • The contrast between the savage cynicism with which the reporters are portrayed and the comic dynamism of the play's door-slamming plot is startlingly modern, as are the play's overlapping dialogue which Hawks borrowed for "His Girl Friday" and blunt language.

    The Church on Catfish Row Terry Teachout 2011

  • Ian Talbot's production does all it can to keep the plot boiling with an orgy of door-slamming, and there is a good moment when tapdancing bellhops and pirouetting chambermaids remind us that everyone in America thinks they're in show business.

    Lend Me A Tenor, The Musical - review 2011

  • Spyski! is, above all else, a farce there is a lot of the obligatory door-slamming and drawn-out misunderstandings and without that level of rehearsal it would be a seriously clunky production, but as it is director David Farr deserves a lot of praise for such creative use of props, and the cast deserve praise for making it all so slick.

    Spyski!, Lyric Hammersmith annawaits 2008

  • Spyski! is, above all else, a farce there is a lot of the obligatory door-slamming and drawn-out misunderstandings and without that level of rehearsal it would be a seriously clunky production, but as it is director David Farr deserves a lot of praise for such creative use of props, and the cast deserve praise for making it all so slick.

    Archive 2008-10-01 annawaits 2008

  • Did that mean Pinky Madam had finally got rid of him with her door-slamming and tart remarks?

    THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga 2008

  • Something will set her off, and there will be wails and tears and stomping and door-slamming and much screaming of "NO!" and "You hate me!" and the like interesting, I suppose, that she rarely, if ever, says "I hate you!"

    The Cultural Construction of Pre-Adolescence Becca 2007

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