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Most Harvard students claim they don't have time for breakfast. Joseph P. Weidle '99 eats it with pinache, and last night, he proved it in on national television...
Adams House residents may have been surprised to find a new black box in their dining hall when they came to breakfast Wednesday morning...
...Birthday Party opens with a typical breakfast for the Boleses, mild-mannered Petey (Joseph A. Nuccio '00) and effusive Meg (Erica Rabbit '00). All's more or less cornflakes and skittles, even for the laterising nowhere-man boarder Stanley Webber (Dominic Doyle), until two visitors arrive. Up to no good, these two, Goldberg (Jonathon Heawood) and flunky McCann (Henry Clarke '00), apparently have some history they'd like to clear up with dear Stanley--exactly what, we don't know...
...threatened. This makes it especially difficult to believe her belle-of-the-ball past when it's mentioned, but the comic potential of the suggestion makes up for it. Rabbit shows the eloquence of stance alone, as does Nuccio. Meg's hands are permanently raised, ready for the next breakfast; Petey never emerges more than halfway out of his shell, even when walking with newspaper clutched. How did the two get married, anyway...
Even more enigmatic, Doyle's Stanley seems at first to be a top-dog boarder, criticizing breakfast with adolescent snideness and even menacing Meg, an easy target. Gradually, his nervous energy increases as he faces the impending threat of Goldberg and McCann. Finally, after shuffling attempts at lying and evasion, he is reduced to cowering, shell-shocked silence. Playing his character with the jumpiness of a dog that knows he's going to be whipped, Doyle turns out a finely shaded performance...