Word: fitch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they didn't bear her the bear. Karen Petrone '87 came into the Admas House Secret-Santa-revealing party and saw someone fall onto the floor, writhing and groaning. One of his friends dropped to the floor and assisted him in his "labor." Since Petrone was the husband, Douglas Fitch '82, an Adams House tutor and her Secret Santa, started blaming her for the pain...
WHICH BRINGS US to the meat and potatoes of this unusual dramatic repast. Fitch, who is an art tutor in Adams House, has assembled some of the freshest visual arts talents around. Seven astounding stage-sets are used in this show, each one drawing greater gasps among the audience for their ingenuity and sheer beauty...
They are also a literary critic's intellectual wet dream. Potluck is comprised of stages--as Fitch told The Crimson, "The protagonist creates a city in his mind, destroys it, is eaten by a tiger, swims around in an ocean that soon becomes a desert, and then winds up back in his living room"--that completes a cycle. Like a Biblical parable, it tells of the destruction of civilization at the hands of hubristic pseudo-intellectuals. The punishment: society is destroyed like the Tower of Babel and sunk into the ocean like Atlantis...
...Prum tells the audience after one particularly trying episode (in which a gigantic and incredibly spooky inflatable Deity fills the stage), "It would be better if I was a book. . . [a book] would be very clear." Instead, Potluck represents the graphic adventures of a rampaging Id--that of director/author Fitch and his fellow writers Prum and David Reiffel--leaving the question of clarity up to the spectator...
...John Rabinowitz '85 as a guest who points out the Sartrean dilemma of being and nothingness by throwing himself down on all fours "to pretend to be a hyena"--a cameo that culminates in Rabinowitz taking a chunk out of the leg of a fellow guest. Kudos to Fitch for giving Rabinowitz several chances throughout the play to reveal his amazing repertoire of vocal sound effects...