Word: martha
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...campaign trail. “Obama’s campaign is indeed consulting widely, and that includes faculty members who are strong supporters (including me) and others who have not committed to any candidate but are glad to give advice,” Smith Professor of Law Martha L. Minow wrote in an e-mail...
...Chelsey J. Forbess ’07 and Simon Nicholas ’07 play Martha and George, a couple whose marriage has all but disintegrated. Martha cannot stand George’s incompetence at the university where he teaches history and where her father is the president, and George is almost as sick of Martha’s Daddy-worship as he is of her hatred towards himself...
...When a hotshot young professor of biology named Nick (Jack E. Fishburn ’08) and his mousy wife Honey (Elyssa Jakim ’10) move into town, Martha invites them over for some drinks. What begins as an awkward gathering explodes into a game of deceit, violence, and debauchery as Martha and George begin to unveil the dark secrets of their marriage...
...best aspects of this outing is that the set, designed by Todd Weekley, is constructed such that the audience shares the same floor space as the actors. The audience sits on sofas and chairs that line the four walls of Martha and George’s living room...
...marital problems of my hosts feel real. Nicholas, as George, visibly develops throughout the play from a bitterly sarcastic, but still calm intellectual into a violent madman. Forbess is alternately psychotic, malicious, and seductive. Indisputably the star of a talented four-person cast, she is Martha: from the sneer on her face to the garish bray of her laugh. The couple’s repertoire vividly etches itself into one’s brain through the screamed, snarled, spat—anything but spoken—dialogue...