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...coming playwright Kenneth Lonergan??€™s semi-autobiographical play The Waverly Gallery poses these questions in a richly-woven text on losses, families, aesthetics and memories. In bringing the play to the Loeb Ex this weekend, director Rebecca R. Kastleman ’05 attempts to explore these themes in a new, abstract and surrealistic production...
Overlapping and simultaneous dialogue is also a distinct feature of Lonergan??€™s play expanded upon in this production. During Daniel’s monologues, for example, delivered from a balcony wrapped around the upper level of the stage in the Ex, the cast below simultaneously echoes words and phrases of his speech to create an almost trance-like effect...
...abstract or surreal elements of the play emphasized in this production are often grounded by Lonergan??€™s insistence on humor...
...Kastleman says these generational differences and the diversity of characters in Lonergan??€™s play were important in her decision to bring the work to the Harvard stage...
...those who can’t stop watching Kenneth Lonergan??€™s brilliant film You Can Count on Me, head to the Ex Dec. 5-7 for Lonergan??€™s Waverly Gallery. Director Rebecca Kastleman ’05 will transform the Ex into a site of intimate family life in this delicate and personal play about one man’s reconstruction of his past and his struggles with identity. Centered around the man’s grandmother’s final days in her East Village art gallery, Waverly is a refreshingly honest and complex piece...