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...professional director to live in the house for a brief period of time in order to get to know the students before putting on a play. The auditions used to be open only to Adams residents, but more recently, it became increasingly difficult to consistently choose a full cast roster strictly from within the house. “Instead of ending a tradition,” Shapiro says, “we opened auditions up to the rest of the school and the public.”“The Pregnant Pause” is being directed...
...Clark nonchalantly downplays his achievement. “I tend to always play the same character,” he says. “The strong, male character.” Clark derives great satisfaction from his ability to help produce plays and sooth conflicts among members of the cast, and his abilities are well appreciated among members of the Harvard theater community. After graduation, Clark hopes to stay in Boston and find a job in the tech department of a theatre, where he can continue to utilize these talents. “Theater beats a normal job. Let?...
...because there is no [dramatic arts] concentration, or that it’s all about the academics, but you can definitely pave your own way here.” Videt’s involvement with theater at Harvard began her freshman year when she was cast in four plays. She then moved behind the scenes, directing work in the New College Theatre, Loeb Mainstage, and the Loeb Experimental Theatre. Two of the shows she has directed were originally developed by the London theater company Complicite, including “Mnemonic” and “The Three Lives...
...HRDC’s production “The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark,” the cast and crew dare to tamper with the sacred texts of Shakespeare. “Hamlet is this worshipped thing. A lot of Shakespeare’s works are. It’s really quite sad, I think,” says director Jason R. Vartikar ’11. “The Tragedy of Hamlet”—not to be confused with the more traditional version being staged this weekend in Leverett House?...
...tell the inspiring and dramatically compelling truth, and to root it in authenticity,” Haney says. “So that the reaction would be almost visceral, so that you would feel it more than think about it.”To this end, Haney cast actors that he felt would cut straight to the core of each character. “The best actors have a shorthand for expressing the emotional life of a character that even the real character can’t quite express as comfortably,” he says. Haney cast...