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...Shaun (played the excellent actor Thomas Turgoose) is a solitary 12 year-old who, when not being teased about his oversized bell-bottoms, has taken to wandering by himself on a deserted beach ever since the death of his father in the Falklands War. He meets Woody - the friendly head of a local skinhead gang who take Shaun under their wing - and suddenly life starts looking up. Shaun collects friends and protectors, has fun smashing up derelict houses and even scores an older girlfriend...
...Though [the audience members] begin as spectators, they become a complicit aspect of the complicated and exciting games,” says Wilner. “It’s a bit intimate and a bit different, given there isn’t the same boundary between the actors and the audience. And that way the audience will have more power.” The audience’s physical closeness to the action only increases their psychological involvement in the show. “[The play is] a very dark, entangled, polluted love story that helps to remind...
...orchestra. He treats the job as a means of helping performers to reach their acting potential. By controlling the musical inputs, he is able to tease a specific emotional response out of performers. “There are deliberate music choices that can take a scene or its actors to another level,” says Musico. “As music director, I’ll change something in the orchestra that will inspire actors to push their emotions until they reach that level.” These subtle changes in music are key to the emotional heart...
...prefrosh, she was accepted into the Freshman Arts Program (FAP); that fall, as a freshman, she played one of the lead roles in the play “Tartuffe.” Since those more-than-humble beginnings Birnbaum has been involved in about 35 shows, both as an actor and a director, and she has had the distinction of acting on the Loeb mainstage three times during her four years at Harvard. Birnbaum’s awareness of her own star power makes her forgiving of true divas. “Prima donna actors are great...
...Herlock Shomes” would go on to have an impressive college acting career. But Hoagland is a winner of this year’s prestigious Jonathan Levy Award, which is given by the Office for the Arts at Harvard to “the most promising undergraduate actor at Harvard College.” He is co-recipient of the award, alongside Josh M. Brener ’07. Hoagland began acting at age 12, but it was in high school that he first realized that he wanted to be an actor. “I liked acting from...