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...most important things about the process, I’ve learned, having done it so many times, is organizing what’s going on behind the table,” she says.This semester, she will direct J.M. Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World,” her second Mainstage production—an honor many Harvard directors don’t experience once. In addition to her artistic background, Spillane-Hinks brings to it an intellectual familiarity: the playwright is the subject of her thesis in Folklore and Mythology, of which this...
...Autumn in New York”: As a graying playboy, Gere becomes smitten with a doe-eyed cancer patient (Winona Ryder). Nothing tugs at the heart strings more than an ill-fated romance; pity this movie makes you reach for your watch and not the Kleenex. This flick is what must have driven Ryder to temporary kleptomaniac insanity...
Director Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06, on the other hand, never seems concerned with anything but the spirit of her artwork. She directed "Slavs!" last fall and J.M. Synge’s "The Playboy of the Western World," will be her second consecutive production on the Loeb’s mainstage—an honor most Harvard directors never even experience once...
...Playboy" auditions in the ornate Horner Room of the Agassiz, Spillane-Hinks and her producers sit behind a long table, calm and serious. That’s not to say they’re all business—they aren’t afraid to laugh with actors, especially those they know...
Both Walleck and Martin have cast their net wide, trying out for eight or nine shows. They are hesitant to name particular parts they are gunning for, although it is clear that the Mainstage productions—"Knock" and "The Playboy of the Western World"—have caught their attention. Martin even requested a copy of the "Playboy" script in advance to familiarize himself with the plot, character motivations, and difficult Irish language that trips people up throughout auditions...