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...says calmly during a rehearsal for Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which opens tonight in the Kronauer Space. Carmichael, who co-directs the show with Moss B. Bittner ’02-’03, is very serious as she discusses the movements of her actor??a puppet constructed from cardboard, cloth, air-dry clay, human hair and, she adds, “mostly duct tape...
...night’s second play, The Actor??s Nightmare, George Spelvin, played by Matthew J. Weinstock ’05, the semi-amnesiac lead actor thrown into plays ranging from Hamlet to Happy Days, gropes for lines and the zipper of his costar’s dress only to deliver perhaps the most painful soliloquy in stage history. The hilariously over-acted Horatio of Christian E. Lerch, and the dead-on deadpan delivery of Winnie by Jessica M. Gordon ’02-’03, highlighted the play’s comic effect...
...license to fail. Go in there, take your best swing at it, and just say, ---- ‘em. You can’t worry about whether you’re going to fail. What’s the worst that could happen? You could get fired. Every actor??s been fired once in their life, so it’s not the end of the world. Don’t worry about being awful, just take your best shot at it. You have to have courage, otherwise you will never lift off the ground. You have...
...life. We can see Williams’ Randolph struggle with unemployment, substance abuse and his sexual identity, while slipping slowly but surely into a dark chasm of insanity. On more than one occasion, Williams is let loose on an improvised, profanity-laced tirade. These tirades are reminiscent of the actor??s stand-up routines and are drop-dead funny. It is amazing that no one has let Williams play a villain before...
...loose paraphrase of Shakespeare, the actor??s role is to mirror humanity, revealing what is intrinsically genuine and affirming in life. AA Bronson thoughtfully and movingly takes up the Shakespearean mantle as a visual artist. He explores the questions of human suffering and identity in the context of the global AIDS pandemic in his exhibit “Mirror Mirror” at MIT’s List Visual Art Center...