Word: berkow
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Jordan R. Berkow ’03 convincingly portrays the young orphan, Nena. Her slim frame and knock-kneed walk portray the tortured innocent of the kidnapped child whom Orlando houses in his basement where he repeatedly abuses her. Amazingly, Berkow is able to portray the child, first wide-eyed and slightly frightened, later battered and animalistic, and finally returning to the childlike innocence of her first appearance before becoming a participant in the daily humiliations surrounding her. And she does most of this without uttering much more than a few words...
...about closeness, and it does not foster intimacy. Patrick Marber’s 1999 play revolves around Alice (Michelle A. Chaney ’05), a stripper with a sordid past; her boyfriend Dan (Charles E. Worthington ’06), a charming idealist; Anna (Jordan R. Berkow ’03), a hardened introvert, and her husband Larry (George F. Broadwater ’04), a self-defeating altruist. The four Londoners throughout the play attempt to unravel the mess resulting from their complicated partner swapping...
That philosophy allows patrons and staff alike to circumvent the tired constrictions of conventional barroom etiquette. Berkow says, “Men are always going to stare at people in bars, but at this place, you call them on it.” She, for example, would douse gaze-happy males with lines like: “Stop staring at me. But if you’re gonna keep staring at me, which you inevitably are, you might as well buy me a drink...
...strategy worked. “It was wild,” says Berkow, who worked day shifts. “I was drinking every day by 11 o’clock [in the morning].” But it was all in a day’s work. Also in a day’s work was performing live two-steps on the counter, called “clogging...
Female patrons at Hogs ’n’ Heifers are often invited by megaphone-bearing bartenders to get up on the counter and join the clogging action. The striking Berkow herself got such an invitation when she wandered into the bar at the beginning of the summer. After a couple of drinks, she was on the table dancing—and after a couple of dances, she was employed. Before she took her place behind and on top of the Hogs ’n’ Heifers bar, however, she had to enroll in a four...