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...unexpected from a play by Albee (best known for his misanthropic work Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ), but the humor is never without an edge. When A querulously issues contradictory demands, prompting her nurse to comically scramble in exasperation, audience members are uncomfortably aware that their laughter is derived from an old woman’s senility. The thin line between humor and pain that Women treads is on full display at the end of Act One, when A delivers an anecdote about her husband that veers from amusing to uncomfortable to simply tragic, all within...
...interacts, as well as the two-part skit “The Apprentice in Bombay,” a parody of Donald Trump’s famous (or infamous) television series, provided a fresh perspective on Indian and Indian-American culture, serving up insight as well as laughter. “The Apprentice in Bombay” pitted a team of Indians against a team of Indian-Americans in a battle for Trump’s affection, and jokes and jabs were served up equally against both teams, along with a number against Trump himself. The extreme nature of both...
...show wasn’t all laughter and vibrant music, however, as more subdued acts approached some cultural aspects more seriously. Two poems were read, one in each act, each by a lone student in the middle of the dark stage. Both pieces dealt with serious issues: the first, entitled “Kaash Mein Tumhe Roki Hoti” and written by Ravi P. Agrawal ’05, told the tale of the violent cost of revolution from the perspective of a wife after witnessing her husband brutally die for the Communist cause. Such sobering moments offset...
...Enthusiastic laughter.] No. Good try, but no. I have not skipped the gates...
When one student asked for an explanation of this gender disparity, the panel members were initially silent, with one member asking, “Can you repeat the question?”, prompting laughter from the audience...