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...further emphasized by perhaps the play’s most unconventional feature: the use of two actors each to play both Jason (Todd C. Bartels ’06 and Josh Clay Phillips ’07) and Medea (Susan E. McGregor ’05 and Adele Jerista), essentially the only characters. This decision inverts the practice of having one actor take on multiple roles, forcing the audience to see the action as if reflected in a broken mirror...
...play opens with a celebratory dinner for Marlene, who has just received a promotion over a man at her job with a career placement agency in London. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (Adele Jerista), the world traveler, Lady Nijo (Scottie Thompson), a former courtesan in the Japanese court, Pope Joan (Emma Firestone ’05), the only woman to ever hold the papal office, Dull Gret (Emily J. Carmichael ’04), the subject of a Bruegel painting, and Patient Griselda (Sarah E. Curtis...
...Jerista and Thompson at times were guilty of overacting in the first act during their fight for prominence. Carmichael’s presence was a welcome one in her ability to express physically what the others seemed to have difficulty with on a verbal level. Firestone’s Joan was tastefully well done—the entire theatre came to a standstill as she described the details of an unexpected childbirth and subsequent death with an eerie calm...
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