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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Directed by Jennie Litt and Will Provost...
Enter Shepard's Follies, the brain-child--or rather brain-children (it's really three shorter plays done in showcase)--of undergraduate directors Will Provost and Jennie Litt. Provost wrote and directed "A Slow Day in the Park" and "Some Game" (the latter not performed the night of this review), and Litt developed "The Unsupervised Infant" in a workshop with the cast...
Understandably, Shepard's Follies lacks the tightness and structural discipline of well-established works, Sid Vicious and bathtubs notwithstanding. But while much virtue lies in Provost's and Litt's creative endeavors, and while both audience and actors seemed to enjoy the new material, Shepard's Follies falls short in its lack of professional polish...
...Litt explains that she performed extensive research for "Pursuit!, "the story of a 13-year-old boy at a prep school in Edwardian England. Not only has she read widely about life in England before the first World War, but she also spent last semester travelling around England, exploring British "public" schools...
...Litt will submits excerpts of her novel as her class assignments. "I don't mind them grading my work. I'm trying to bridge academics with creativity," says Litt, who also authored a play, "Epiphany," that was performed both in New York and on the Loeb Theatre's mainstage...