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Elizabeth W. Donn '99 said she recalled her initial response clearly: laughter...
...relays the wrenching inner turmoil of her character, while Benjamin Evett instills Hypolytus with a sense of naivete and youthful nerve. Theseus--Jonathan Epstein--delivers a charged performance as well, with his towering stature and the gruff voice of an Athenian warrior. The production appears to intentionally spark audience laughter in the most wrenching scenes. At times, the play pounds on with a tragic death occurring every 30 seconds and the pathetically ragged messenger scurrying on and off stage, uttering in melodramatic rasp, "Master, he/she's dead...
...well-played accidental criminals. We do find points of identification with them. And heaven knows, some of us are fed up to the teeth with movies glossily restating humane sentiments. Finally, though, Berg's relentless, youthfully enthusiastic assault on conventional pieties grows tiresome. And we begin to choke on laughter that was from the outset pretty dubious...
Between the two stoic marble statues on the stage of Sanders Theatre, Whoopi showed the actor within. Her larger-than-life mannerisms gracefully spurred laughter. She charmed the crowd as she professed advice and her stance on many of life's issues...
Then again, it seems to me that he always does. No matter what challenge presented itself in any of his projects, situations so ridiculous that when he mentioned them the auditorium promptly produced riotous laughter, he always managed to use them to his advantage in creating a building that was functionally suited to its purposes and also wildly original...