Word: luluã
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...childlike innocence that entices men—but whether Lulu??s ingenuousness is authentic or invented is dubious. Throughout the play, viewers are drawn to question the truth and depth of Lulu??s innocence and whether her lovers really just care for the purity they have constructed for her. Actresses Julia C.W. Chan ’05, Rebecca J. Levy ’06, Catherine P. Walleck ’06, and Elizabeth A. McLeod ’08—who each play Lulu in her different stages of maturity—do a particularly...
...late 19th century, the first two acts are characterized by a wry wit. With a script chock-full of sophisticated double entendres and copious phallic symbols, these acts showcase a wonderfully funny Joshua Clay Phillips ’07 as he portrays the simple and perpetually astonished Schwarz (Lulu??s second husband...
Alan “Scooter” Zackeim ’06 as Doctor Goll and Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 as Lulu??s female admirer, Geschwitz, contributed memorable performances as Lulu??s lovers. As Alwa, playing another of Lulu??s lovers, Jess R. Burkle ’06 adds a more sophisticated but equally enjoyable comic dimension to the play with his keen sarcasm and biting wit. Alwa’s role soon grows more serious, however, along with the overall tone of the play. Lulu is implicated in the murder...
...lovers’ conceptions of the ideal Lulu are perhaps further hopeless because of the role that art plays in the drama. Lulu??s lovers are artists and tend to instinctively view Lulu as yet another work of art, both perfect and controllable. But Lulu is neither of these ideals—a point emphasized in this HRDC adaptation...
Such conflict between the artistic ideal and imperfect reality is the central conflict of the play; the “Lulu?? script strives to convey the wretchedness of human lives lived in constant comparison and aspiration to unattainable artistic perfection. In one of the most successful campus dramas in recent memory, “Lulu?? deftly achieves this goal, shifting what could have been a flippant, conventional story of one girl’s corruption and social downfall to a poignant and serious examination of the shortcomings of the human condition...