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...Further requests it be allowed to suspend this stiff UN language and talk like a normal person...
...Hammer said. Still, he sometimes gave the actors slightly different versions of their background stories because, according to Hammer, “that’s the way the truth is.” He would then put the actors together and have them rehearse a scene, each person believing something slightly different about the way the fictional events had transpired in their characters’ pasts. The ending of “Ballast” also defies conventions, as it may seem abrupt to members of the audience seeking a neatly wrapped resolution to the emotional chaos. Describing...
...mother who alienates her son. But she is also a character who, despite her faults, has an obvious inner goodness that makes her bearable. She is able to empathize with a wide range of people due to a “sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed.” Though it can sometimes feel like reading the same story over and over again as different characters continue to realize they have been betrayed, that repetitiveness simply drives home the point: all of our stories are essentially...
...atrocities of the 40-year Guatemalan genocide and the human rights report of the Guatemalan Catholic Archdiocese that exposed the massacres. It is his first work to be translated into English, and it utilizes material from the real report. The novel is a stream-of-consciousness first-person account of an anonymous writer in an unnamed Latin American country, commissioned to edit 1,100 pages of testimonies from survivors of massacres of Indian villages.“Senselessness” begins with the words spoken by one survivor: “I am not complete in the mind...
...down to little things that tend to escalate,” Pecci says. “There’s not enough space. I mean, we do our best, but that sort of carries over into this feud. I think Diane, having been here, understands and is the best person for the job to alleviate that tension and to improve the student faculty and professional relationship for everyone’s well-being.”Despite the resentment HRDC students may still feel over having to share the Loeb Drama Center, both they and other undergraduates involved in theater...