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...play shifts back and forth in time, taking Li’l Bit back through various stages of adolescence. Hodgson sums up the plays difficulty: “Practically and aesthetically things happen on top of each other.” The play delves into a distinctly uncomfortable subject matter in a complex, layered fashion, running for an hour and a half with no blackouts...
...Hodgson approaches the play’s temporal complexity by eschewing tricks of props or scenery, relying instead on their actors’ performances to clarify the ages of the characters in each scene. As Li’l Bit (Sara L. Bartel ’06) moves in age from 35 to 17 to 15 to 13 and finally 11 throughout the course of the play, she has subtle props to aid her transformation: a hair tie, a scarf tied loosely around the waist and large silver hoop earrings. But she remains in the same basic outfit throughout...
...nonsequential chronology also means that the script shifts settings rapidly. Because of the need for quick scene changes, Hodgson and his cast and crew required a versatile stage space containing as few trappings as possible. They use a minimum of heavy furniture, bringing out only a table for a family dinner or two chairs when Li’l Bit and Uncle Peck...
...Hodgson makes his directing debut this fall with the first pre-season show at the Loeb Experimental Theater: How I Learned to Drive, which opens this weekend. Last year, he acted in Chess, Richard III and Pippin. When he’s not acting or directing, he divides his time between the Literature concentration and in serving as the Communications Coordinator for the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club...
...sings well and acts competently as the Russian chessmaster Anatoly Sergivesky, though less could be said of Travis Nesbitt in the role of his childlike American counterpart, Freddie Trumper. Nesbitt, though excellent when dancing, projects poorly, and in dialogue overplays his gestures to the point of ridiculousness. Bobby A. Hodgson ’05 does a very good job as Walter Anderson, a CIA agent masquerading as Freddie’s agent, and Nicholas R. Adams ’03 and Matt J. Weinstock ’05 do well as the KGB details assigned to Sergievsky...