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...center of the catastrophe is Sarah Chandler (Francesca Delbanco), a kind of anti-heroine. After her children are quarantined, she flees London, only to be chased back because other towns fear the possibility of infection from a Londoner. When she returns to the empty frame of a house that once contained her family, her response is emotionless. Her frequently vacant stare makes Chandler strangely cold, an awkward position for a central female character...
Dunster resident Francesca B. Delbanco '95, who played Anna, the character based on the playwright, said the performance at the Festival was "pretty amazing and a remarkable theater production...
...Delbanco, whose thesis in History and Literature was due five days later, "pulled a week of all-nighters before the show." She then fell asleep before the performance, she said. "I missed a lot of the chaos...
...actors' fatigue notwithstanding, "the momentum of the day pushed us all forward" during the prizewinning performance, Delbanco said. All three of the actors in the ensemble piece--the third character, called Third Man, represented everyone the brother and sister met in their travels--were nominated for the Irene Ryan acting competition at the regional festival...
...DelBanco and Stone also handle their roles with aplomb. They render their relationship as brother and sister instantly believable; the various strains Anna's disease and her promiscuity put on this relationship are conveyed with delicacy and subtlety. Their rapport, especially when they reminisce about their childhood closeness, rings touchingly true, and is especially poignant in a play dedicated to Vogel's own lost bother. But Carl and Anna are neither melodramatic nor cliched. Amid the kaleidoscopic, surreal happenings of Vogel's plot, one never loses a sense of these characters' essential normality and love for each other...