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Gesturing wildly in the air, a logician concludes that Socrates was in fact a cat while a townsperson-turned-rhinoceros roams the village. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) production of absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros” shines when presenting such over-the-top antics; but true victory lies in its profound and stirring interpretation of the work’s dark underlying themes...
...brilliance and innovation of the interpretation by director and set designer Burkle triumphs over the occasionally weak acting. The haunting red umbrellas take Ioensco’s rhinoceroses beyond the absurd and into the surreal; the HRDC production transcends a mere illustration of the script and creates a work of art in its own right...
...chemicals and wearing an opulent gold brocade robe, the alchemist pursues his treacherous craft. But this craft in not merely the spurious production of gold; rather, the alchemist’s true art lies is his ability to exploit human weakness. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s (HRDC) masterful presentation of Jacobean dramatist Ben Jonson’s “The Alchemist” succeeds in transcending its titular seventeenth century pseudoscience to provide a humorous look at the foibles of mankind...
...time when you’re playing to get credit for what you’re playing, it’s about enjoying the show.”Technical director Blase E. Ur ’08, who is also the newly elected President of the HRDC, fiddles with the special effects that make each scene, paradoxically, both more magical and more real. “Ruddigore” was the first show that G&S wrote for electric lights, giving the technical crew a special obligation to technological experimentation. “The most complicated technical aspect is allowing...
...Mainstage runs a risk that the vast space will dwarf actors. I knew that this show would push us towards staging and design strategies that would fight against that danger.” Yet in spite of all its philosophical and visual grandeur, Spillane-Hinks insists that the HRDC production of “Slavs!” is intimate and personal at heart. “‘Slavs!’ is not merely an idea play; it is a play that struggles with fundamental elements of being human.” Whether it?...