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Opposite extremes converge in The Man Who. . . an artistic combination of two one-act plays under the direction of Brian R. Fairley ’05. Produced by Mollie M. Kirk ’07, this performance pairs two very different, but complementary plays (“The Man Who…” written by Peter Brook and Marie Helen Estienne and “The Man Who Turned Into a Stick” by Kobo Abe) for a unified and touching effect. Although initially slow-paced, the strong performances by the small five-person cast, marked...
While emotionally moving, the repetitive patient-doctor scenarios contributed to a first half was oppressively slow and the dramatic production device of a moving TV, which flashed the name of the particular disorder, was very distracting. However, the second one-act was much more engaging in color, movement and style...
POLLACK: I had Nicole first, and I was trying very hard to find the actor who would disturb her--I mean, disturb the character. The movie takes place over five days, and there are five major scenes between these two characters, and each one is kind of a one-act play. They have to disturb each other in an attractive way. We didn't have a finished script until deep into the shooting, but I thought, O.K., I know Nic a little bit, I can be embarrassed by asking her to do a picture I don't have a script...
After producing The Pirates of Penzance last semester, the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players open with their second production of the year, Princess Ida, tomorrow night. And the Harvard-Radcliffe Contemporary Music Ensemble, in a new initiative, is producing several student-written one-act operas later this month...
Writing a hit play is about as hard as finding a parking space in the Square (or so goes one playwright’s saying, I think). When the producers of the hit play Matt and Ben couldn’t find a venue in the area that would suit their playful fiction-based-on-fact one-act about the younger travails of Messrs. Damon and Affleck, they opted for a space as unlikely, and as good, as any: the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. This is where, Harvardwood lore has it, the illustrious Mr. Damon emoted his last emotion...