Word: heraldic
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...under the direction of de Sade (David Levine), will be performing an `historical' play about Marat's murder for a public audience as proof of their `rehabilitation.' These inmates come from all walks of life: past revolutionaries, priests and vagrants. Tying the whole messy lot together is a herald (Adam Feldman), who, as the ringmaster for this crew of raving lunatics, introduces each scene as it happens in terse rhyme, prompts the players with their lines and constantly mediates between Coulmier and de Sade, as one pushes for moderation and the other for extremism. And so the mad ride begins...
...play, of course, isn't performed quite like that. These are all asylum patients, remember, and it is with great difficulty and demented idiosyncrasy that they get through scenes, bleating out their lines like brain-dead sheep. Were it not for the anchors which the herald, de Sade, and Coulmier provide, the play would be lost on the same...
Adam Feldman as the herald is much too loud and insistent at first, but calms down significantly after that and becomes the only island of sanity in this turbulent pool. With biting zest, he shows perhaps the only real awareness of his surroundings, and thus provides contrast to the rest of his cast--he sets them up expertly, so that their full abberation can be appreciated. David Levine as the Marquis de Sade speaks in such a laggardly, elephantine voice that some of his more intelligent soliloquies of de Sade's perversions sound unconvincing. He lacks the intensity...
...really don't know what's going on," one MGHemployee says. "Most of what I'm gathering I'mgetting from The [Boston] Herald...
Some have blamed negative publicity nationwide for the decrease in applicants, but Harvard Dean of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid William Fitzsimmons told the Herald that "in the long run, Yale will continue to be one of the highest institutions...