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...Wilbur, unfortunately, all that remains is a miniaturized version of a set designed for a far larger stage. The actors look packaged rather than contained. Paul Pyant’s lighting still brilliantly illuminates the stage in myriad ways, from morning in a church to dawn on a cliff-top, but now there is a distracting dichotomy between the effectiveness of the lighting and the ineffectiveness of the set. To a certain extent such problems seem inevitable in an international tour, but one would hope a better sense of scale could be reached in reconfiguring...
...people on the fringe of society, The Woolgatherer attempts to deal with the inherently human condition of isolation. Rose, a poverty stricken, single woman, combines Blanche DuBois’ hysteria with Laura Wingfield’s loneliness, resulting in an intense, needy amalgam of insecurity and neurosis. Cliff (David L. Skeist ’02), her male counterpart, a misfit truck driver, is a kind of wannabe Marlon Brando who demonstrates his manly virility through his brusque, to-the-point language and pontificating monologues...
...meet at the five-and-dime store where Rose works, and the play begins after she has just invited Cliff up to her apartment. While Cliff thinks her intention is for a little “wham bam thank you ma’am” action, her motive is a little less clear. The play that unfolds is a record of the unusual relationship that forms between these two very lonely people...
Rose, who lives in a perpetual state of fear, epitomizes urban paranoia. Her one window is boarded up after the previous tenant hanged herself, and she refuses to let Cliff open it up and let in fresh air. She is a woman who seems painfully afraid of men and sex in general, and tells stories about her good friend Brenda, who, after being wronged by a man, disappeared for good. She is diametrically opposed to swearing, drinking and smoking, frequently breaks out into irrationally impassioned monologues about the vicious boys who stoned to death four of the last seven birds...
...Tigers picked up a point at the No. 2 spot when Williams defeated freshman Cliff Nguyen (who was playing down a spot from the day before) 6-3, 6-4. Riddell closed out Friedman, 7-6(3), 6-4, to put Harvard...