Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lala Levy (Jessica Hecht) is a socially awkward young Jewish woman, back home in Atlanta after an aborted semester at the University of Michigan. In between decorating the Christmas tree and ogling the Hollywood celebrities in town, she is trying to get a date for the big event of the Jewish social year, known as Ballyhoo. Reacting in various ways to her travails are her widowed mother; the unmarried uncle and widowed aunt who live with them; and her prettier, more socially assured cousin, home from Wellesley...
...those? Of those what? The adjective in a noun's disguise was Goldhagen's awkward way of concealing from innocent readers that I had been writing of officers only...
Technically, there were a few serious problems with the play. The set changes were awkward and took too long because the set of each scene was very different from the one before. Director Stephanie Smith '98 attempted to cover up the length and noise that accompany the set changes with well-chosen music, but this didn't completely mask the problems. Janie's phone messages, which begin each scene, were poor in sound quality. They echoed through Beren Hall and were barely understandable for the audience members straining to hear...
...year, when Chelsea first reappeared in the public eye on tour with her mother, two Newsweek reporters wrote a commentary praising Chelsea and how she had grown up so well despite the fishbowl phenomenon. Yet, in their surprise at Chelsea's new appearance, they wrote: Is this the same awkward orthodontically-challenged girl who moved into the White House three years...
...first of the vignettes featured the two best performances in the play. "Sure Thing" tracks all the possible turns and twists a conversation between a man and a woman can take. Every time the two strangers, Bill (Scott Brown '98) and Betty (Jessica Jackson '98), complete an awkward bit of conversation, a bell rings. Instantly, they find themselves thrown back a moment in time--only to try the interaction again...