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Since then, few semesters have gone by without a performance in the tiny space, which only holds about 30 people. This semester the space has hosted a work by Stewart Thomsen '83, The War Years, and Brian Friel's The Faith Healer. Says Laurence Thomsen '89, who directed The War Years, "It's an intimate space. My favorite part about it is that it's so stark. It creates its own atmosphere...
Writtem by Brian Friel...
...Teddy (Linus Gelber) recall his life, culminating in a disastrous return tour to Ireland. Each character gives his version of the events, with Hardy going first and last; like the famous Japanese short story and film Rashomon, their accounts do not quite measure up with each other. Playwright Brian Friel, who is undergoing an inexplicable vogue among the Harvard thespian set, handles the theme of religion as a divine con game with much less sophistication than Flannery O'Conner did in her novel Wise Blood...
Written by Brian Friel...
...public Gareth (Bob Toner) and his private side (Kevin Walker) surmount the demands of the difficult premise of the Winthrop House show, a drama-comedy written by Brian Friel. The public Gareth--Gar for short--is a quiet, unemotional guy who wonders whether his father will miss him when he leaves Ireland for Philadelphia. He was too shy to ask Senator Doogan (John Claflin) for the hand of his daughter (Laura Uyterhoeven). Now she's married to someone else...