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Under the guidance of 2005 Visiting Director Brendan Hughes, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) adaptation of the 1894 German sex drama “Lulu?? is provocative without being sensational, profound without being excessively intellectual, and, despite its tragic ending, a definite artistic success...
Frank Wedekind’s “Lulu?? is the story of an almost painfully innocent young girl, who is prone to corruption and seductive behavior that seems almost accidental. In fact, she makes childishly brash proclamations of her luxurious life but doesn’t seem to be aware of their sexually provocative insinuations. As such a dangerously tantalizing girl, Lulu entrenches herself in a downward spiral of intrigue, betrayal, and passion that always seems to leave her lovers dead...
...involuntarily leans in close, almost bursting with enthusiasm at a job that entails “spending six hours a day having amazing conversations with amazing people.” Boston is one of his favorite locations for having this amazing time. By no means will “Lulu?? be Hughes’s Boston directorial debut. In fact, Hughes first realized his love of directing at Boston Latin high school. Since then, he has studied and educationally immersed himself in theatre at institutions like the University of Massachusetts at Boston and the Yale School of Drama...
Complexly satiric and tragic, Lulu is a portrayal of an uncommonly animalistic female sexuality. And yet this devouring, voyeuristic female role is a lens through which to comment on the harm of social divisions. It’s a conclusion reached through the unusual device of maintaining Lulu??s overt sexuality from the height of her social stature through her decline and fall. Lulu embodies the commonality that bonds humanity: the sexual craving...
...that some potential student audiences will be uncertain of what to expect, given the play’s dark subject matter. But she trusts the skills of Visiting Director Brendan Hughes, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and promises that, although “‘Lulu?? will be a challenge for us and the actors, it is a challenge that will leave us changed...