Word: coleman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Katherine Coleman was married to an Army major and psychologist. "It's a myth that domestic violence doesn't happen in officers' families," says Coleman, now divorced and living in San Antonio, Texas. Her husband went so far as to draft a prenuptial pact detailing sexual obligations and rules governing outside friendships. She recalls him cornering her in the kitchen or bathroom and not letting her leave until she gave in to his demands. "We argued once for four hours in the kitchen, and he wouldn't let me out," she says. "I had to urinate on the kitchen floor...
...play follows the ongoing correspondence of Melissa Gardner (Wendy Coleman) and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III (Justin Levitt). Through a series of letters, postcards and notes, a complex relationship unfolds, beginning in the second grade and continuing all the way through adulthood. Trading the Science Center basement for cozier Eliot House library, the play creates an intimate atmosphere with minimal props and preparation. In fact, the story requires little other than the dark wood-paneling and aristocratic leather armchairs of the library to conjure up the upper-crust backgrounds of the two characters...
Since the play limits itself to the indirect interaction through letters, the characters cannot depend on actions or gestures to help convey the varying depth and quality of their feelings. Both Coleman and Levitt give convincing performances and maximize the impact of each line of the script through careful attention to their tone and inflections in speech. Coleman manages to portray a seven-year-old princess, promiscuous teenager, and troubled, jaded socialite all in succession. Occassionally, she borders on emotional excess; for example, the repeated emphasis on her despicable stepfather's name seems overdone and jarring. But overall, her charged...
Seriously though, what a lunatic. He's right out of the Vince Coleman school of social etiquette...
...Thrilled is totally an understatement," says concentrator Monica A. Coleman '95. "I am so happy that Evelyn Higginbotham is coming, because if there are no role model...