Word: herrera
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...Richard is an extremely intelligent, thoughtful character on stage, and on the turn of a dime has schemes and ideas, and is in his own dark way very witty,” Herrera says...
...this adaptation, Herrera has cut a significant chunk of the play’s less important scenes and removed some of the heavy Christian dialogue. But the play’s success still depends on Richard’s ability to capture the audience from...
...play is structurally challenging, according to Herrera, because the ending “sets up a bunch of new problems.” And the student production demands that amateur actors both respond to the challenges of language and explore the mysteries and personalities of each character...
Throughout the production, Herrera, who was vice-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club last year, says he’s tried to treat the process like any other production. He wants to keep up the energy of the performance and encourages his actors not to focus on treating Shakespeare’s work with too much reverence...
...thought it would be very interesting to see how the text would inform the set of themes at the end of the play, in which Richmond is no longer the hero but instead is this very controversial figure coming in to conquer and colonize,” Herrera says. “That easily became a proxy for Cortez and the Spanish...