Word: oneness
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...address. He was traveling on a false passport and living under other people’s names. This isn’t hard to arrange. It is irremediable. I don’t know how he made his decisions in those days. The postcards were laconic. He wrote only one letter, to my mother, the winter that girl died.” This exact wording is repeated several times, presented side by side with a reproduction of the one letter her brother wrote, as if by telling this narrative over and over, Carson hopes to come to an understanding...
...opening scene of “The Pillowman,” a man, covered to the waist in a rough burlap sack, lies sprawled on a table, while a lone wooden rocking horse rests forgotten in a corner. In this one eerie visual tableau, the play’s thematic juxtaposition of childhood innocence and dark violence is powerfully established. This startling contrast underscores the drama of the entire production. Directed by Ilinca Radulian ’11, and playing at the Loeb Experimental Theater until April 24, “The Pillowman” is a dark and comedic...
Giles often dons garishly gender-bending outfits to depict frightful women in narrated performances of Karturian’s stories. In one, he forces a tight red dress and thick strands of pearls over his detective’s uniform. Even more bizarre, Katurian’s costume for the Pillowman (a character from one of his stories) is a blanket-jacket with sleeves and a bonnet-like pillow-hat which, though giving the appearance of softness, belies his life’s sinister work...
...share a radically different defining characteristic: profoundly patriotic monarchism. As they sing in the show, “With all our faults, we love our Queen.” Faults or no, the irresistible energy of the cast makes “The Pirates of Penzance” one lovable show...
However, these pirates do not disappoint. The Pirate King (Ilan J. Caplan ’10) has a gravitas that makes one of the show’s many exuberant refrains infectious: “But I’ll be true to the song I sing, and live and die a Pirate King.” The strength of the supporting cast sometimes threatens to overwhelm Frederic’s character—which Nelson, either purposefully or not, imbues with a sense of weakness—but that is, perhaps, the point. Frederic—who stubbornly holds...