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...Birthday Party opens with a typical breakfast for the Boleses, mild-mannered Petey (Joseph A. Nuccio '00) and effusive Meg (Erica Rabbit '00). All's more or less cornflakes and skittles, even for the laterising nowhere-man boarder Stanley Webber (Dominic Doyle), until two visitors arrive. Up to no good, these two, Goldberg (Jonathon Heawood) and flunky McCann (Henry Clarke '00), apparently have some history they'd like to clear up with dear Stanley--exactly what, we don't know...
Fortunately, since we spend our time combing the performances for clues, the actors know to engross us with their characters and yet still leave us hanging. Rabbit brings Meg to new lows in ditzoid blowsiness, to such an extent that she sometimes doesn't appear to know to be afraid when she is threatened. This makes it especially difficult to believe her belle-of-the-ball past when it's mentioned, but the comic potential of the suggestion makes up for it. Rabbit shows the eloquence of stance alone, as does Nuccio. Meg's hands are permanently raised, ready...
...never really should know. When Stanley staggers about on-stage in ratty pajamas with no good explanation for why he's there--no helpful "Thanks for putting me up here while I am on my way to Shropshire-on-Blandings," say--we're most interested. When we see good Meg, who seems most unfortunately to be addicted to helium shots, pipe away at the calm, turtle-like Petey about fried toast, we want to know how on earth these two came together...
...definitely productive," says Meg Vaillancourt who covered the debates for the Boston Globe. "You get to see what their priorities really...
CAPTAINS: Meg Kassakian '97, Rachel Chernikoff...