Word: lorenzaccio
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...Lorenzaccio...
Thus far, the semester has been a prodigiously productive one for Harvard theater. However, the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s incredible production of Alfred de Musset’s Lorenzaccio, which went up this weekend on the Loeb Mainstage, is far more than simply this season’s showcase piece: kinetic, elegant and held together by visiting director Jay Scheib’s tremendous sense of style, Lorenzaccio is easily the best piece of theater that the Mainstage has seen in years...
Nonetheless, certain members of the generally excellent cast stand out. Kate H. Walker ’06, as Lorenzaccio, is a trifle too slight at times, but in general she’s suitably complex and keeps her motivations obscure; she’s at her best when her character is at her most dissolute, and in a frenzied monologue as she prepares to assassinate her cousin, the duke. Adam G. Zalisk ’07, as Duke Alessandro himself, is dynamically sleazy, capricious and otherwise tyrannical. Ben D. Margo ’04 is extremely funny as the scheming...
THEATER | Lorenzaccio...
...opening night for the Visiting Director’s Project Lorenzaccio, directed by Jay Scheib. Paul Schmidt’s translation of the Alfred de Musset play is a steamy depiction of 1530s Medici Florence. Through Nov. 22. 8 p.m. Tickets $12; $ 8 students and seniors. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle...