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...Thompson ’09, consists primarily of a table and chairs, which the characters forcefully rearrange when agitated. Interestingly, the table is trapezoidal to give it forced perspective, a trick that is also being used on the Mainstage in “The Marriage of Bette and Boo.” The set becomes increasingly littered with an assortment of objects that I would venture to guess comprise one of the more unusual prop lists in Ex history—including bottles for cleaning supplies, shoes, lobsters, a baby carriage, and a cabbage, adding to the general sense...
...baby being thrown to the floor, at the feet of aghast relatives: this image of violence is repeated several times as a symbol of the failure of family life in “The Marriage of Bette and Boo.” As such a motif suggests, the first Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) Mainstage show of the year does not shirk from conflict in its portrayal of suburban life. Running until Oct. 28, “Bette and Boo” was written by Christopher F. Durang ’71. Produced by Aileen K. Robinson...
Generations of family struggles, presented with a combination of gravity and comedy, dominate the first Loeb Mainstage theatrical production of the year, “The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” which opens tonight and will run through Oct. 28. As a part of the Visiting Director’s Project (VDP), the play is the only Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club production this season that will not have a Harvard student at its helm. Instead, the play is being directed by Marcus Stern, the renowned associate director of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) and the A.R.T./MXAT...
...sound booth for “Bette and Boo,” surrounded by rolls of electrical tape and a stack of sound-effect tapes that reaches to the ceiling, Ur is taking Shearer’s words literally...
...Over two long months of awkward silences at the dinner table, non-greetings, and translational boo-boos, we’ve both arrived at the conclusion that divisions of race, culture, generation, and economic class are not as easy to surmount as general wisdom would have it. No ringing choruses of “We are the World” in this house. Our conversational exchanges never quite leave the sphere of the superficial; the lofty realms of ’80s-synth-happy harmony are as accessible to us as Betelgeuse...