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...done a great job with Look Back in Anger. Scripts like this, with few characters and no scene changes, can be insufferable tedious even in professional performances. It also doesn't help that the Winthrop House JCR is far from an excellent theatrical space. However, Delichatsions' choreography, from boyish brawls to a song-and-dance comic routine, juxtaposes energy upon indolence in an effective reflection of the themes in the dialogue. And the talented members of Anger's cast give some shine to this diamond in the rough...
Lake is mostly the story of John Wade, a boyish, idealistic politician who retreats to a cottage in the Minnesota woods to recover after a humiliating election defeat. There, with Kathy, his longtime wife and college sweetheart, he looks into the mist over the lake and plays hide-and-seek with his unwanted memories. For Wade is not only an earnest man of principles, he is also a spooked vet who wakes up yelling in his sleep recalling the horrors he was part of -- and party to -- in Vietnam. Kathy is guilty of her own betrayals, and the wary husband...
...Bill Clinton's boyhood home of Hope, Arkansas, they sell a postcard showing a picture of his grammar school class -- Bill's shy, boyish face unmistakable. On the back of the card, the fine print reports that young Bill was so smart that the other kids used to go over to his house "just to watch him think." All the kids enjoyed an amazing display last week as they watched Bill Clinton thinking his way through the Haiti business. What a performance -- plates waveringly spinning on sticks balanced at the end of nose and chin and fingertips, a plate...
Levitt also plays his role with sencerity. He acts with a wide-eyed earnestness that matches the boyish naivete of Andy. Andy is the one who loves to write letters and insists that the more reluctant to write letters and insists that the more reluctant Melissa do the same. According to Andy, letters allow him to give a part of his thoughts and feelings away completely. They are the most unselfish way to show his feelings...
...young man had slowly become aware of his enigmatic memories, of otherworldly beings lurking in his life, of "strange coincidences" and time out of joint. What was happening? Who could tell him? Casting about for help, says the boyish Pennsylvania health-care worker, "I saw this article in the newspaper about Dr. Mack. And I thought if you can't trust a Harvard professor, who can you trust...