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...books and letters thrown onstage. Morrissey is a seasoned performer and uses his charms and talent to capture attention. But while he's not much of a dancer, Cher-esque costume changes (three of them!), shirt stripping, coy looks and witty banter (including clever jibes at Jerry Springer and Montel Williams) more than captivated the crowd...
...creative use of space and the smaller dimensions of the Loeb Experimental Theater also make this production seem larger than life. Montel cleverly utilizes the different levels of the stage and the concept of distance to vary the intimacy of each scene. Mellow musical interludes provide for subtle scene transitions...
...there so little literary representation of minorities? As Fortenberry indicates, the assumption is that works by minority playwrights will be chosen by minority directors. Max-Joseph Montel '01, director of Women Beware Women opines: "As a director at Harvard with a limited number of shows I'll have time to direct, I choose plays that are worth it to me. I don't particularly look for diversity either in a play's potential for it or in the casting of it, but as a rule, I leave myself open to it." Perhaps it is that noncommittal stance that discourages many...
...part of the struggle will involve educating the theater community about the dramatic range of minorities. Some directors seem woefully ignorant of what they actually have to work with. "If acting's the problem, shows need singers and dancers, too," says Montel in an unintentional nod to the common relegation of minorities performers to minstrelsy. Hood mistakenly asserts that "African-American drama did not come about until Langston Hughes in the 1920s." "African-American drama started a long time before that,"says Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies Department. Indeed, the first published play...
...Directed by Max-Joseph Montel...