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...second act, however, drops all pretenses of dark humor and becomes simply difficult to handle, as the truth behind A’s nostalgic ramblings during the first act becomes apparent. As the characters’ tongues become sharper (the second act largely consists of C asking the other two women to account for why they are so bitter), so do the themes— and the play subtly builds into a warning that one can never truly get beyond past mistakes, except in death...
Jackiw stood calmly and confidently in a twilight-blue shirt, his face only perturbed by the compression of his brow on particularly tender passages. The color of his violin so matched the dark mahogany of the theatre interior that his instrument seemed to disappear; he seemed to be performing a dance with...
...show wasn’t all laughter and vibrant music, however, as more subdued acts approached some cultural aspects more seriously. Two poems were read, one in each act, each by a lone student in the middle of the dark stage. Both pieces dealt with serious issues: the first, entitled “Kaash Mein Tumhe Roki Hoti” and written by Ravi P. Agrawal ’05, told the tale of the violent cost of revolution from the perspective of a wife after witnessing her husband brutally die for the Communist cause. Such sobering moments offset...
...just a symphonic recording—the dark, longing violin strains radiated only from mechanical arena loudspeakers—but for Reka Cserny, that was almost too much...
...dark cloud formed over campus common rooms. People glanced anxiously at their friends and laughed nervously at Seth’s jokes even when they weren’t funny. Like Phil Collins, true fans could feel something “in the air,” but no one wanted to be the first...