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Havergal uses acting exercises and improvisations frequently, both as warm-ups and as contributions to the actor's understanding his/her character. "I don't know what exercises do for the surface of a play," says Havergal, "but they contribute a lot to the bottom part of the iceberg, the resonance of a play." One of the exercises that the Figaro actors did was to turn their characters into statues, and then make the statues grow larger and larger. Figaro employs a very theatrical style of acting, gestured, European, Latin. "The characters have to be very big, but they must...
...instead of imposing it on you," Ralph Zito '81, who plays a leading role in the production, says. "You watch for a spontaneous revelation," Havergal says, "a moment when something in the text will give them a clue or a bridge to cross." "He gives you a lot of leeway," Aquino agrees. "It seemed like the play came out of us. If we're not comfortable with a piece of blocking, Giles will say, 'By all means, change it,' and then he'll watch us and let us know if it's all right...
...leaves behind--gulp--one of the smoothest, most enjoyable, and most professional Harvard shows this year, proving that great directors need not be distant, tyrannical or tempermental. If Havergal can't explain what a director should be, it may be because he embodies it. "He's got a lot of class," Aquino says. "He brings those good, British-style cookies to rehearsals--none of this pretzels and Coke shit...
...Surprise, because while I had heard that Shepherd was a big swinger (he told me so himself), I didn't know it applied to softball. Besides, in our pre-game base conference, second base told me that Shepherd had been striking out a lot lately...
...Senators like Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) got a lot of mileage out of it, and even more moderate members--Dennis DeConcinni is the most recent example--raised objections. The result was a little friendly rhetoric to tone down DeConcinni's jingoistic clause about American military intervention. That and a lucky break or two saved the administration from a major foreign policy fiasco...