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...Jonathan C. Dorf '93, treasurer of theHRDC, saidthe club, which is responsible fororganizing student theater, could not reverse anydecision made by the faculty committee...
...employee of the College," Dorf saidof Symonds
...play itself was more troublesome. I hope that Jon Dorf's next play will be, as it ought, shorter and better. These two things are linked: the overwhelming fault of Ben was that it was too damn long. Dorf tried to capture the relationship between Ben and the Baxter, the restaurant owner, by making their dialogue strained, which led to deliberate pauses of up to 40 seconds between lines. Yes, I did time it. I had nothing better to do. Moreover, the restaurant guy was supposed to be a windbag, and Dorf went at the job too eagerly. His monologues...
...larger issues? The relationship between the homeless and rest of society was dealt with much too glibly. There was a lot of "Hey, Harvard, you don't see all this and it's right in front of you." Yeah. Dorf's vision wasn't really revelatory or shocking; his homeless characters were conventionalized to a sort of bland pissed-offedness that no number of references to Au Bon Pain could infuse with reality. And the seamy side of it all--the drug abuse, the prostitution that gives Ben a chance at quick money--felt like it came from the Young...
...this: I didn't enjoy Ben, but that won't change anything in the world. The lights came up, the audience applauded enthusiastically, and Ben's brief life was over. It had decent acting and cool posters. Now there will be other plays, some, no doubt, by Jon Dorf. Time marches...