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...Concentration" alone suggests that it is a difficult play to stage, leaning heavily towards the meta-physical and absurd. The play, deeply colored with irony and deadpan humor, offers at its core a vague but haunting presentation of the meaninglessness of modern life The production of director Ron Avni '97 is an admirable attempt to capture all this frenzied complexity, but is too often overwhelmed by the scope and obscurity of the text...
...Louis D. Monoyudis '98, Philip R. Kaufman '98, Kaplan, Laura B. Pincus '98; Eliot: Pia A. Menezes '98, Catherine D. Rucker '99, Michele A. Manahan '98, Khrista McCarden '98, Benjamin W. Hulse '99; Kirkland: Crimson editor Justin D. Lerer '99, Nicola McKinney '99, William M. Jay '98, Ron J. Avni '98-'97, John J. Appelbaum '97, Leverett: Justin Jones '97-'98, Eli M. Ce yak '99 Carston M. Reichel '98, William F. Abely '99, Tally Zingher '99, Gregory Kranias '98; Lowell: Michael J. Passante '99, Rudd W. Coffey '97, Katherine F. Mossman '97; Mather: Stephen E. Weinberg '99, Joseph...
...Avni, however, as Mad Wu, is saddled with a thankless job: with little place in the plot, or in the world, he arrives to serenade Dora with a relentlessly ironic lounge song about himself, his song and her. If there is something to frustrate the audience in this play--and there is much that is on the border between challenging originality and frustrating whimsy--it is his character. The self-conscious Other (he is a self-described "Chinaman" seeking to break stereotypes about homeless people), he mischievously implies with a quavering song that he is in on all the play...
...Huseyin Avni, an ardent patriot of the small Turkish town of Seferihisar, loves his country and loves his hashish.* One day not long ago, after a zesty breakfast of coffee and hashish, Huseyin glanced out of his window and, to his horror, saw a detachment of Soviet soldiers standing menacingly in the garden of his neighbor. Without a moment's hesitation, he seized an axe, leaped the fence and began laying about with a will. He dropped three to the ground before the police, hastily summoned by the neighbor, at last subdued Huseyin long enough to point out that...