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Back to the stove, where it's time to make the dumplings, courtesy of Bisquick. Drop in a few frozen peas, and it's a balanced meal. As the credits roll, you see me dumping tiny bits of chicken and mashed-up peas on the high-chair tray. Pan wide to the girls, who haven't been served because they're still fighting over who gets the lime-green Tupperware bowl. Bon appetit...
When the American Repertory Theatre puts up a show, whether it's Peter Pan or Bertolt Brecht, every scene feels like an existential dialogue in the dark. It's partly a function of the Loeb Mainstage itself and partly a function of A.R.T. sets which are too conceptual to bother setting the right time-of-day tone. This darkening affect is only a part of an A.R.T "feel" that touches almost every show they produce, and their most recent, Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, is no exception...
...FIRST VISIT TO THE RESTROOM, I stare Kong culture dead in the eye. The vomit looks a brown, orange color-like vegetable moo shoo gai pan splattered on the toilet and hanging on the stall walls. The smell cripples me and I feel a spasm contract my stomach. I close my eyes, hold my breath and aim my stream of kidney-processed Budweiser into the puke lagoon. The guy facing the urinal turns his head to caution his buddy entering the restroom, "Watch out, somebody zooped in here!" I've never heard of zooping before, but I sure as hell...
...4x400 meter relay, an event that Harvard expected to perform well in, did not pan out for the Crimson. A fall at the beginning of the second leg of the relay kept the Crimson, seeded second in the event, from contention. But the 4x800 meter relay team redeemed Harvard with a fourth-place finish...
...Trips to Mt. Auburn Hospital (they happen every year, kiddos) can pan out in style. One: Arrive in a cab, not a police cruiser, a shopping cart or a Harvard shuttle bus. Two: Make sure that your companions know your full name, lest the medics feel the need to phone Dean Nathans for a spell-check. Three: Have said companions, friends or lovers leave you two shoes and some cash. After all, you plan to spend the night...