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...effects are strikingly presented without sacrificing the play's momentum or the characters' integrity. The technical discipline in the lighting designs of Mike DeCleene '97 and audio work of Leeore Schnairsohn '98 is remarkably rare. Consider, for example, how Kathryn Walker's recent staging of The Bacchae in the Agassiz smothered its actors in an admittedly dazzling weave of colors, echoes and choreography. Kushner's whole point, in fact, is that wonder and magic are essentially human phenomena; not wrought upon his characters but arising from them, pouring out or passing through...
Yesterday afternoon Women in Science at Harvard Radcliffe (WISHR) and Radcliffe College cosponsored a brunch at Agassiz House. Fifteen female graduate students in the sciences met and mingled with undergraduate women in science concentrations...
Though the cast of the current production playing at the Agassiz doesn't have to cope with such a nasty surprise, one suspects the actors would be able to rise to the occasion. From Dionysus' prologue/monologue (delivered by Winsome Brown '95 with fitting malice) to Agave's coming-to (acted out by Catherine Ingman '98 with fitting horror), the progress of the play benefits from the actors' uniform intensity of focus...
...Loeb Ex itself may seem like small performance space when compared to the Agassiz--and definitel when compared to the Loeb Main stage--but many creative possibilities lie within its black-painted walls. Fortunately, the set designer (Abigail H. Gra '99) has realized some of these possibilities. The set itself consists of four small stages, one against each wall, and the central floor space. Thus, the audience tucked neatly into the corners of the theatre, views the production from number of different angles. Theoretically, it is even possible to see the production four times and get a different perspective each...
Polling sites include the Agassiz School at 29 Garden St., King School on Putnam Ave., Peabody School on Linnaean St., Putnam Apartments at 2 Mt. Auburn St., Youville Hospital on Hovey Ave. and on-campus polling stations at Quincy House and Gund Hall...