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While “Cloud Nine” attempts to “put a flag in new lands,” this Loeb Ex production doesn’t manage to score. Playing until April 26, “Cloud Nine,” directed by James M. Leaf ’09-’10 and produced by Anusha Deshpande ’09, is a commentary on gender roles and sexual repression that does not manage to be insightful enough or provide a big enough laugh to make the three-hour production worthwhile. The cast makes...
...Blasted” has been called a “disgusting feast of filth,” and justifiably so. The “multi-sensorial nightmare” of rape, cannibalism, war, and suicide is currently in its premiere New England run at the Loeb Mainstage until April 12. The Roving Reporter stopped by to talk with the cast and director about their fun-filled performance.Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08RR: What’s your role in the production?CLB: I’m directing it.RR: Why’d you decide to direct...
...found all the meanings and lost all the mysteries, we will be alone, on an empty shore.” Every meaning is properly discovered by a thoughtful performance of “Arcadia,” Tom Stoppard’s comedic masterpiece, which will run at the Loeb Ex through April 12. The play deals with topics as large as the uncertainty of history, determinism, and entropy, but the tension between order and disorder in the play does not extend to this crisp production.The themes and structure of “Arcadia” are complex...
...might offend innocent sensibilities, but if violence, cannibalism, and obscenities seem bearable, “Blasted” is worth watching. Billed as “The New England Premiere,” a production of “Blasted” is running until April 12 at the Loeb Drama Center. Directed by Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08 and produced by David P. Thoreson ’08, the production could be considered a test of endurance with a running time of just over two hours and no intermission. But the intense and grotesque nature...
Laura S. Hirschberg, ’09, an English concentrator, is the director of Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia,” which will begin running in the Loeb Experimental Theater April 4th. This is the second production Hirschberg is directing on campus.I’m a total theater nerd. Completely addicted in every way possible. I’ve been doing theater on stage but mainly behind the scenes. I was in Gilbert and Sullivan in fall ’05. In the same semester I also took part in “Ruddigor...