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...Amar Hamoudi...
...design by Helen Shaw '98 and the soundtrack coordination of Amar Hamoudi '95 also deserve commendation. The (literaly) luminous backdrop allows for a series of visually rich, stunning scenes, taking advantage of the small space to create a flow of constantly changing motion and color. The stage frequently transforms into tableaux which are tiny gems of visual creativity: The visual imagination of the director seems to have been working overtime, and the results often veer brilliantly into Magritte country...
...stage is only one part of this show. Even more important is the soundtrack, in which Eliot's poem is made to undergo transformations he couldn't have imagined, and probably wouldn't much care for. Here, too, the sheer achievement is impressive; sound designer Amar Hamoudi prolongs a poem that would take five minutes to read aloud into a rhapsody of sound. Hamoudi, along with O'Maley, creates a series of moods based on the speed and intonation of the speaking voice, enhanced by various beats, snatches of music and random snatches of speech. (Some fragments of "The Waste...
...Hamoudi singled out as an example a mural,retouched by Adam J. Cohen '95, which said: "It'sall true....it's a dirty house. They all sleeptogether. They all swim naked in the pool...
...have a pool anymore, but we have thisreputation," Hamoudi said...