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...coming playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s semi-autobiographical play The Waverly Gallery poses these questions in a richly-woven text on losses, families, aesthetics and memories. In bringing the play to the Loeb Ex this weekend, director Rebecca R. Kastleman ’05 attempts to explore these themes in a new, abstract and surrealistic production...
...play is framed by Daniel’s narratives, as he “rides the waves” of his memories of his grandmother’s final days. Kastleman says her experimentation with memory and the “selective images” it creates is most apparent in the play’s set design. The umbrellas onstage that “serve to delineate an abstract, surreal and hopefully beautiful space,” are the most prominent feature of the “semi-abstracted?...
...Comedy is absolutely a focus,” Kastleman says, “and a lot of the comic aspects have come organically. These characters are exaggerated family archetypes...
...well, Gladys’s selective memory and confused interpretation of conversations make for some amusing, albeit uneasy, moments. The comedy remains tenuous, however, for as the play progresses and Gladys’s condition deteriorates, “what begins as uncomfortably funny,” as Kastleman says, “ends up being just uncomfortable...
...Kastleman, a performer with Harvard’s improvisational comedy group the Immediate Gratification Players (IGP), is no stranger to comic delivery. She says the training of IGP has helped not only in the play’s more humorous moments, but in the listening and response between cast members, and their spontaneity and risk-taking. She also emphasizes the collaborative nature of the production and the ensemble building that has allowed the cast to “come up with ideas of doing things in dramatically different ways...