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...grounded most of the play, Frank C. Napolitano ’05 and the stunning Caitlin C. Vincent ’07, were solid performers and great singers. Their scenes were always enjoyable to watch, and they perfected a sort of mock-stage chemistry which fit perfectly with the evening??s style...
Thankfully, the show’s fifth and final play is a thoroughly enjoyable Bollywood tribute. It’s a riotous parody of the evening??s themes, conducted entirely in rhymed verse and full of Bollywood’s requisite song-and-dance outbursts. Although this act is the evening??s most shoddily acted, it is far and away the best of the lot. The audience and the cast are quite ready, after the concerted seriousness of the evening??s first hour, to party...
...also got spoken word weirdness, a student’s original classical composition (which was nap time in the mezzanine), and—the evening??s absolute low point—a performance described as “drawing upon...works by Sam Shepard, T.S. Eliot, Jose Saragamo and David Foster Wallace.” Maybe its subtle, subversive point was to prove that name-dropping doesn’t cut it where theater is concerned. During these pieces, the best seats in the house were those from which you could observe Summers trying his best...
...evening??s most emotional moment, Dawn Dougherty, director of public education and outreach services at the Boston Rape Crisis Center, recounted her own experience of sexual harassment the previous evening. She described how a man repeatedly made unwanted advances as she waited...
Eggers was invited by fellow young luminary Zadie Smith, who is a visiting lecturer at Harvard this year, to give one in an ongoing series of readings to the Harvard audience. Those who showed up got a reading, but that was only the beginning of the evening??s festivities: true to form, Eggers filled out the hour with bizarre anecdotes, off-kilter observations and a laid-back bantering session with his appreciators...