Word: pelicanã
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...only has Dorin adapted and shortened the two plays in order to fuse them together into the 80-minute“Pelican??—spending six months reading about Strindberg and perusing his work—but he has also retranslated them from the original Swedish with the help of Harvard Scandinavian Club president Maria E. Troein ’07. Strindberg, a contemporary of Ibsen, has long been written off as an insignificant playwright by English speakers mainly due to the sloppy translations of his plays...
Though Dorin has worked with Athena’s director Rebecca L. Eshbaugh ’07 on five or six different plays including last spring’s “Three Tall Women,” “Pelican?? marks their first official collaboration, one that is especially appropriate because of the play’s fascinating female roles. Eshbaugh explains, “This is a play about the family and the family gone wrong. It deals with the issue of the mother and the mother gone wrong...
...Pelican??—a disturbing story about a mother who abuses her children—includes difficult subjects like matricide and incest. The audience surrounds the stage on all sides, according to co-producer Xienwei Ngiam ’07, to heighten the sense of emotional dead-end in which the characters find themselves...