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...junior majoring in biology at the University of Texas in Austin: "Who wants to be put in jail or pay some huge fine because you downloaded Justin Timberlake's newest song? It's just too big of a risk." --With reporting by Stefanie Friedhoff/Ann Arbor, Avery Holton/Austin, Naeemah Khabir/Tallahassee, Jessica Reaves/Chicago and Chris Taylor/San Francisco
Under the veteran direction of Naeemah White-Peppers, postwar New Orleans lurches into being, subtle jazz languishing on the breeze before fading into silence. The simple home of Stanley (Ari Appel '03) and Stella (Christine Nichols '01) Kowalski, rendered in a pastiche of gritty realism and abstract whimsy by designer Pete Wilson '99, becomes a battle ground where Stanley and Blanche DuBois (Sara Newbold '00), Stella's indigent sister, square off in a frantic struggle for survival...
...large the production doesn't suffer much at the hands of the various "play within a play" permutations that comprise it. All of the actors do a good job of managing three or four different characters without letting one run into the other, and Naeemah A. White-Peppers' clever costume design aids them in this. Occasionally the show begins to drag when the lack of distance between the audience and the players makes it difficult to suspend disbelief...
...design of this production is minimal; the set design of Kris Kelly, while functional, pushes neither the actors nor the space in any profound direction. Much more interesting is the costume-design of Naeemah White-Peppers and Valerie DeCharette '02; from George's relaxed academia, clad in earth tones and corduroy, to Honey's prim and proper coordinated outfit or Nick's slick, ambitious look, each costume says something insightful about its respective character...
Emcees Sienna R. Owens '00 and Naeemah A. White-Peppers '99 hosted a show that included poetry readings, dramatic monologues, speeches, dance, comedy and musical performances by Harvard students and alumni, as well as others from the area. Two fraternities represented at area colleges, Kappa Alpha Psi and Phi Beta Sigma, also sent speakers...