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Although it runs the full gamut of human trauma—family abuse, violence and deception— “Pelican” suggests that through revelation of these griefs, even the grimmest of tales can end in hope. One of the darkest shows that the Loeb Experimental Theater has seen this year, “Pelican” demonstrates the futility of “sleepwalking” through life in denial of abuse. This production of “Pelican” avoids sleepwalking in any form, and the cast and crew have navigated a difficult play...
Efforts by groups like the Harvard College Celtic Club and by the producers of the upcoming Loeb mainstage of J.M. Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World” may be just the sort of first step needed to finally make Harvard a place where Irish artistic culture lives. But in order to be successful, these groups will have to overcome years of disconnect with both the Harvard student body and the Irish community beyond its gates...
...This production...is one of the first real Irish plays that students have done in a long time,” says Lecturer in Dramatic Arts J. Michael Griggs, who is also the Loeb Drama Center’s technical director...
When “Pelican” opened in the Loeb Experimental Theatre last night, it represented a unique amalgamation of less known and less recognized elements of theater: one of the plays that forms the basis of the adaptation, “The Pelican,” had not been performed at Harvard in over 30 years. The other, “The Isle of the Dead,” had never been performed in the United States. The director of “Pelican,” on the other hand, represents an amalgamation of an entirely different...
When “Pelican” opened in the Loeb Experimental Theatre last night, it represented a unique amalgamation of less known and less recognized elements of theater: one of the plays that forms the basis of the adaptation, “The Pelican,” had not been performed at Harvard in over 30 years. The other, “The Isle of the Dead,” had never been performed in the United States. The director of “Pelican,” on the other hand, represents an amalgamation of an entirely different...