Word: cohen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adam S. Cohen '84, associate managing editor of The Crimson, will likely be asked to testify as well, said Troy...
...Cohen met with the alleged victim in February when she contacted The Crimson to publicize her accusations against Vagts...
...first, director Roger Kaplan seems to be aiming for minimalism, a severe understatement that admirably suits the grim plot. The characters wear black and wander around their comfortable living room (Quincy's unadorned common room) with the same aimless ferocity that characterizes their power games. Hedda (Julie Cohen), newly married to the buffoonish George Tesman (Curt Raffi), is bitter and trapped, seeking to find artistic fulfillment by manipulating the men around her. In the few days that follow her return with Tesman from their honeymoon, Hedda gradually becomes twisted in her own plots, trapped by the circumstances that once made...
...hard to concentrate when few of the characters seem plugged into what's going on, either on the superficial level of scenery and props or the more essential one of tension and buildup. Cohen as Hedda has a good sense of time and tone, and her sudden still pauses are effective at first, but through too much of the play she seems merely to be walking from pose to pose; the intensity that could lead Hedda to destroy men's careers in her quest for "perfect moments" appears only in intermittent flashes. Raffi as Tesman and Linda Gray...
...envious comments about Mrs. Elvsted's long hair ring oddly when directed at Gray, whose hair is short; the hapless Gray is forced to cry. "Let me go, let me go" at a Hedda who is supposedly grasping her by the hair and threatening to "burn it off," while Cohen barely touches her. Most incomprehensibly, Lovborg's all-important manuscript--surely not a tough prop to come by in a Harvard house--makes its appearance as a folded copy of the Boston Herald. (If intentional, the satire is sadly misdirected...