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...Lauren L. Jackson ’07, who enters silently at the play’s end as Jamie’s editor-turned-lover. Playing the temptress without disrupting the two-character balance is a difficult task, but Jackson pulls it off. The ingenious set, designed by Jess R. Burkle ’06, complements these seamless performances. Chairs line either side of the Ex and the actors perform in between them. Brown packing boxes serve as the building blocks of the set, and Jamie and Catherine transform them into couches, a bed, a pier, or whatever else they...
...It’s really honestly not one of our top regattas. We’re obviously looking to do well at it and [senior skipper] Jess [Baker] and [freshman skipper] Roberta [Steele] really have a shot at doing well, but it doesn’t carry nearly the same weight as our national championships do or our regional qualifiers do,” Devlin said. “It’s kind of the coaches decisions who to send where...oftentimes they don’t send their best people to the Ivy League championships...
...JESS LEAVING...
Oddly enough, he was right. The four would-be suicides are Martin, a disgraced talk-show host; JJ, a failed rock musician; Jess, a teenager who just got dumped by her boyfriend; and Maureen, a middle-aged shut-in with a severely disabled son. Momentarily distracted from self-destruction, the four get to comparing notes. (Maureen is immediately judged the top gun, misery-wise. "Oh, yeah," says Jess. "That's a no-brainer. Don't change your mind. You'd only regret it.") They decide to put off jumping and instead form a bickering, wary, ad hoc fellowship...
Likewise, Jess R. Burkle’s ’06 video design (though it occasionally upstages dancers) and Casey M. Lurtz’s ’07 incredible costumes do wonders for the ambience. Finally, kudos to Simon E. Chin ’05, the production’s dramaturg, for condensing Aesychlus’ trilogy and other works of the cycle into a whole that, though fast-paced and at times elliptical, functions dramatically within time constraints...