Word: fishburne
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...would hardly expect an actor who recently performed a 25-minute monologue at the Loeb Experimental Theater to be shy, but Jack E. Fishburn ’08 seems possessed of a certain soft-voiced, secretive tendency. It’s only on our way out of Adams Dining Hall that the English and American Literature and Languages concentrator and Adams resident deigns to mention, ever so quietly, that he “sort of went to Eton.” Or that one of his motivations for attending a college outside his native Britain was the fact that he?...
Luckily for the actor, his own head seems to have retained its normal size despite the fact Harvard theater has become quite pro-Fishburn in recent years. After a marathon of appearances on Harvard stages that culminated with his participation in three Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) shows last semester, Fishburn has restricted himself to just one play this term, describing it as “methodone to the sort of heroin.” Yet given the intensity of the work Fishburn put into the production—where the previously mentioned monologue constituted the entirety...
...Though Fishburn didn’t start acting particularly early, he became heavily involved in theater during high school and chose to continue with acting when he came to Harvard. I hadn’t really done any [drama] until I was 13. I think I was “second rose seller.” That’s about as far as it went. And then I auditioned and started acting and did it all through high school. When I got here I got a good first play which was “Equus...
...Jack E. Fishburn ’08 also delivers a reliably good performance as the original doctor in town, Dr. Parpalaid, who sells his practice to Dr. Knock. In his rumpled state, Parpalaid seems at first a conventional bumbling, foppish Old Boy, but comes to take on dramatic importance as a symbol of the traditional, pre-Knock way of life. Fishburn’s ability to command a scene works well for him here: his authoritative joviality makes him a convincingly comic, seemingly harmless persona at first, but allows him to also assume the role of a compelling dramatic character...
...acting. “Catastrophe,” directed by Wilner, portrayed a director (O’Donovan) frantically ordering his assistant (Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08) to make adjustments to the pose and attire of the perfectly passive figure of the Protagonist (Jack E. Fishburn ’08). Fishburn’s role entailed him to stand perfectly still first as the audience filed in and then throughout the piece, and he succeeded in demanding the audience’s attention despite the activity of the other characters. As the director, O’Donovan?...