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...demand that the future director of the Harvard Institute for International Development be aware and responsive to them as well, both in perspective and past record. It is evident that Arnold Harberger is unfit for the position on either of these grounds. Richard Reed Jerome Hasenpflug Michael Rhum Bruno Pajaczkowski Emily McIntire Mariza Peirano Rafique H. Keshavjee James P. Ito-Adler Roberto Kant DeLima George Bisharat Hy Luon Elizabeth Eames Martin Etter Nancy Nicolson
Doctor Faustus. Derek Pajaczkowski's Faustus is utterly lacking in grandeur, but this production does boast a captivating Mephistophilis (an ex-Yalie, no less) and unusually inventive staging. At the Leverett Old Library Theatre, March 11-13, at 8 p.m. Tickets...
Unfortunately for Marlowe's dramatic scheme, Derek Pajaczkowski, an otherwise competent actor, is badly miscast as Faustus. Visually wrong for the part--Faustus is a mature scholar, not a brawny youth--Pajaczkowski plays the doctor as a brash, young man who struts around the stage with a sustained smirk. While this approach works adequately in the comic sequences, Pajaczkowski lacks the dramatic range necessary to convey the full gamut of Faustus' tormented self-questioning. In addition, he experiences no minor difficulty reciting Marlowe's verse, placing his emphases seemingly at random--as though he knew some accents were needed...
...shortcomings of Pajaczkowski's Faustus are thrown into sharper relief by the masterful performance of Greg Landis as Mephistophilis. The embodiment of controlled torment, Landis remains sympathetic even while hissing damnation. When the memory of his own loss of grace moves him to warn Faustus of the devil's snares, Landis projects a dignity never fully attained by his victim...
...although theatricality can heighten drama, it cannot replace it. Ultimately, the chief problem with Doctor Faustus resides in the casting of its lead. While, ironically enough, almost every actor except Pajaczkowski wears white-face make-up, it is he, who by neglecting the role of wise man, ends up playing the fool...