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...technological innovations and the contributions of incandescent personalities. "Had astronomers been watching," he writes, "they could have seen ((the explosion)) reflected from the moon, literal moonshine." But moments after the artificial sunburst, witnesses became awed captives of their immediate surroundings: "The horses in the MP stable still whinnied in fright; the paddles of the dusty Aermotor windmill at Base Camp still spun away the energy of the blast; the frogs had ceased to make love in the puddles...
...dreams, the children were paralyzed by fright. A girl named Hyinka dreamed that when she went into the forest for firewood, a Cape buffalo attacked her and she tried to push her down with his horns. She could neither run nor scream. The buffalo pushed her into the water with his nose. Memusi had a dream about a lion's attacking and biting, and she tried to scream but could not. Lekerenka could not scream, either, when bitten in his dreams by a spitting cobra. He woke up crawling on the ground...
...imagine a hypothetical moment during the rehearsals of Sweet Table at the Richelieu, Serban's latest with the A.R.T., when playwright Ronald Ribman offers a comment from the corner and Serban jumps a foot into the air with fright. The result of his first collaboration with a pre-immortal is a production that is far more textually-oriented than the followers of Serban and the A.R.T. are accustomed, presented with a restrained staging that supports the material, infusing it, as the stage is supposed to do, with life...
They say that most people's greatest fear is not the fear of death, but the fear of appearing before an audience. This week, I braced myself for a fate worse than death, confronting my fears at Harvard's semi-annual crash course in stage fright: the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) Common Casting Week auditions...
Thus, I survived the test of fear known as Common Casting Week, but the anxiety persists, at least until Tuesday, February 10, when cast lists go up. For me, it would be almost a relief not to be cast; at least I wouldn't have to face stage fright again...