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...course of true love never did run smooth,” wrote Shakespeare in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the first play performed by HRST this summer. “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” HRST’s last play this summer, embraces this course—unsmooth and all—as the only way to describe modern love...
...Perfect, Now Change” begins charting the hilarious, idiosyncratic progression of most male-female relationships. Directed by Jonathan J. Carpenter ’07 and co-produced by Benjamin M. Poppel ’09 and Jeremy R. Steinemann ’08, Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater (HRST) took the musical comedy to the Loeb Experimental Theatre stage this past Friday. The show is the perfect choice for HRST to end their season—and a perfect choice for prospective audience members who love musical theater and have ever been on a first date...
...World Over” was a strange choice for HRST. It is unfortunate to see their numerous talents—in both production and acting—wasted on such a ridiculous play...
Bunin’s play is an odd choice for HRST. It is certainly unique: This may be the only play in existence that is simultaneously a whimsical fantasy and an overt critique of geo-political borders. Ignoring its ridiculous plot, the play is simply not well written, riddled with clichés and obvious morals. At the play’s climax, for example, after watching Adam spend most of his life traveling around the globe in search of Gildoray, he speaks the incredibly revealing line: “I was chasing a kingdom and found it was only...
...take place, was extremely well constructed, even beautiful. At the beginning of the play, a map of some of Adam’s travels was projected onto the ship’s white sails. This extremely professional construction proved useful throughout the play, particularly during the hurricane scene that HRST impressively portrayed at the end of the first...