Word: actes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first act, the tension between director Lloyd Dallas (Daniel Zelman) and his actors keeps the audience's interest. Dallas desperately wants to run through the dress rehearsal in order to have a good opening night, but the actors keep pausing to question the motivations of their characters. Zelman commands to them with a perfect balance of sarcasm and subtle condescension...
DESPITE Frayn's basically witty dialogue and the realistic two-story Brent summer home designed by director John Claflin, most of Act I drags. Act III, due to no fault of the actors, is also a let-down. Act II, however, fraught with fast-paced action and funny mime sequences, is definitely the most entertaining part of the show...
Timing is key in Act II. The setting is backstage during a performance, and while all the actors are running around backstage (the set from Act I having been turned around), the audience hears and glimpses the actors on the other side of the backdrop performing Nothing On. Director Claflin deserves praise for his masterly staging and for the fact that the actors are able to execute his plan perfectly. Much of this act is funny because characters enter at inopportune moments and misinterpret the action they see; without exactly timed entrances and exits, this act would not work. Despite...
...part, the University should press for an earlier renegotiation of the garbage contract, and be prepared to act as a broker between recycling companies and the 12 financially independent graduate schools who will have to make up their own minds about implementing a recycling system...
...wake of FAS's rejection of the report's spirit, the issue of Harvard's minority and women faculty hiring must return to the forefront of campus politics, and soon. The Undergraduate Council's ad hoc committee should get its act together, broaden its attack and be unabashedly militant...