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When Lucia Joyce was born in 1907, no one knew her father James was a genius. He was just a twentysomething layabout, an Irishman drinking away his exile in the Italian city of Trieste, scribbling unpublished manuscripts. Lucia took after her father: tall, pale and skinny. In Carol Loeb Shloss's Lucia Joyce (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 560 pages), she emerges as shy but clever, a bright, pretty girl and a witty mimic. Lucia became a dancer. Her work was by all accounts strange and fascinating--"totally subtle and barbaric," one critic wrote. But her promise was never fulfilled...
These girls were brave, to put it mildly. Their show ran on the same weekends as the extremely “artsy” Lorenzaccio ran on the Loeb Mainstage; Lorenzaccio’s bizarre video screen projections and set which often blocked the view of the action were far, far removed from South Pacific’s wide smiles, clever choreography and unending optimism...
...know we’re learning. The trick is to find that edge on the surface of something more familiar, so that we’re still oriented even as we’re exploring. Thursday night, on a whim, I went to see a play at the Loeb theater. The play was three hours long; it had a cast of dozens, several intertwining subplots, and playbill notes that included multiple philosophical references. It was challenging to watch, and raised more questions than it answered. Clerks it was not. But both were still theater, of one kind or another...
...HRDC and Loeb Drama Center policy is designed to ensure that no performer is ever made to feel uncomfortable. The audiences were warned about the content of the show, also a matter of policy,” he said...
...result was the welcome collaboration of another professional, Leah Gelpy, who specializes in sound and video design, and who made possible the first video live-feed the Loeb Mainstage has ever seen. In addition to the Chinese restaurant and the pasty-colored American ranch house that comprise the set, a large video screen hangs over stage left, streaming out scenes from the interior of the house. Margo notes dryly that Scheib’s proposal of de Musset’s Florence also “didn’t say ranch house...