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When the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club presented Angels in America: Millennium Approaches--Tony Kushner's award-winning and highly controversial play--on the Loeb Mainstage last year, rave reviews and consistently sold-out performances greeted the production. Perhaps with that victory still in mind, the Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater's publicity department has tagged the posters of their latest production, Slavs!, with a prominent line that states, "From the Author of Angels in America." Tourists, summer school students and other people who were not around to witness the latter play's performances last fall may or may not be drawn...
With a stage that utilizes the Loeb's cramped quarters in one of the best and most spacious manners that this reviewer has ever seen, Slavs! begins by tackling Russian politics in a tumultuous era with absurdity, vicious humor and a great concern for both the individuals and the masses. The opening scene immediately draws in the audience--even those completely ignorant of Russian history--with a flurry of fake snow and a lively political debate going on between two babushkas. These sprightly women, however, quickly turn into the mindlessly smiling grandmothers they are supposed to be as soon...
Williams: I think plays in the Ex [Loeb Experimental Theater] are always cutting-edge. But one of the concerns of Summer Theater is to cover our own expenses. Therefore, we have to offer a season that will attract more than the year's usual mix--artsy oldsters, for example. My goal as producer is to sell the show and not sacrifice artistic merit...
Next Week: The Crimson chats with comedy all-stars Jessica Jackson '99 and William Burke '99. Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater has performance at the Loeb-Ex all summer. Tickets are available at the Sander's Theater Box Office...