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While most people associate the "Ex" with innovative--and often oblique--performances of radical modern plays, members of the Harvard Radcliffe Drama Club (HRDC) are hoping to revamp that image by broadening the scope of the theater's presentations. Since, as Gutwillig says, the space is "not inherently dramatic," organizers have sought to fill the space with a variety of artistic disciplines during the preseason and postseason, while reserving the regular season for more traditional offerings...
HRDC members are hoping that their postseason event will be similarly successful. Although University regulations prevent the mounting of a new production during reading period, the production of "Charlotte: Life or Theater?" will begin during classes and continue through May reading period. According to Gutwillig, "Charlotte" will be an original theater piece based on an autobiographical book of 769 paintings, which German holocaust victim Charlotte Salomon used to record her life...
According to Gutwillig, the variety and the duration of the season's project are meant to "expand community awareness of what the space is for and what...
...title, which, despite numerous references in the dialogue, never surpasses the self-conscious (they're emotionally starving, you see). Emma (Molly White) the younger of the two gawky adolescents, is having her first period, as the mother constantly reminds father and brother to excuse her behavior. Wesley (Steven Gutwillig), her brother, urinates on a heap of Emma's painstakingly drawn posters. Shepard isn't one for the soft touch. His intention is obvious and a bit clumsy--to elicit from the audience the same plaintive reaction Emma has to Wesley: "What kind of family is this, anyway...
White avoids this trap the best, enabling the consistently wacky pre-teen Emma to relate her personality so other characters--parents, for instance, Gutwillig as Wesley has a harder time. Less defined to start with, his character progresses a lot further through the plot's various unbelievabilities than his sister, and he and Bernstein, excellent by themselves, rarely convey the impression of mother and son. Most of the stiffness and bad timing evaporate once Norris as Weston comes onstage; the strongest personality of the four, he not only dominates the plot but brings most of the dramatic momentum with...