Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show for those willing to sit through one of Shakespeare's worse plays. The Quincy House production does as best as can be expected with a faulty script and limited resources. At the end of the play, as is typical of Shakespeare, the King states that, as actors, the cast's only desire is to entertain. Although there were some unsatisfactory complications to the play, as far as this desire goes, "All's Well" lives up to its name...
...WEEKENDS IN MARCH, the Adams House Drama Society's production of "Godspell" swims in the Pool Theater, seeming like a cross between "Jesus Christ Superstar" and Shiny Happy People. Accompanied by a six-piece rock band, the cast dishes out enough cheese to feed the entire audience. Some consume the cheese and are satisfied; others just feel queasy...
...show begins in the dark with chaotic, simultaneous mumblings by the cast followed by a booming declaration of someone claiming to be God. Once the lights go up, the rest of the play is pure sugary sweetness. A group of overalls- and pigtail-clad performers engages in a bout of happy dancing and 100-watt smiling, not seen since Greg, Marcia and the Bunch donned the pastel bell-bottoms and harmonized to "Sunshine Day." One of the actors soon emerges with a cordless microphone and leads the rest of the group in singing the first of many toe-tapping...
While the songs did outshine the skits, their performances also varied in degrees of success. Peter Wilson '99 and Christine Driscoll '97 each sang impressively, with Driscoll delivering a near-professional performance. Some other cast members, though, seemed to be in over their heads and would have been better left in the anonymity of the chorus. While Van Boskirk commanded her role well, her acting often was often overdone and her Jesus, too often flashing a nauseatingly sweet grin, seemed more patronizing than benevolent...
...just smiley, insipid lessons and becomes a more foreboding graphic representation of the life of Jesus, replete with the Last Supper, Betrayal of Judas, and Crucifixion. The change in tone appears inappropriate, overly-contrived and unbelievable. The lack of character development and believable dramatic acting from the previously-perky cast prevents the audience from sympathizing with the characters. While the cast members were shedding laughably phony tears, the audience was so indifferent to the fate of the Messiah that, following the drawn-out crucifixion scene, there was not a wet eye in the house...