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Baldwin believably plays the assassin and Basinger takes the edge off the blonde ditz that Carol could have become. They are the two serious characters in a sea of overdramatized and not-so-sauve villians. They work well together in the action scenes that require shooting and keeping track of the money. In scenes requiring extended dialogue, they lapse. When carol goes to visit Doc in prison, her demeanor screams "Barbie on a business trip." She seems like she is visiting her agent before a stroll down the runway of a fashion show. Her tone is flat, her acting bland...
...play poses--literally--the obvious question: whodunit? Was it the queen, the lady in waiting, the grande dame, or the suspicious antiquarian? The right answer is any of the above. Shear Madness asks the audience to reconstruct the events, interrogate the suspects, and vote on the assassin. The ending of the play is democratically determined. Interactive theater, no less...
...which a House master two weeks ago asked his students not to defecate in public hallways and to clean up their mess if they did. Clearly, this is not a University that cares how dumb it looks. So what could motivate two College administrators to agree that an "Assassin" game sounded like good, clean fun, but balk a few days later...
...Assassin players stalk each other with plastic dart guns--or in the case of the thwarted first-years, plastic spoons; the last to "die" wins. So croquet it ain't. But it's a game some Harvard students like to play. And while the Yard is a popular spot for tourists, it's also the home of some 1,400 students...
...disagree. Harvard ought to be concerned about its image, and that's exactly why administrators should allow the Assassin game in the Yard...