Word: playfulness
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...hour Play Festival is a biannual tradition now in its 14th semester at Harvard. In the span of only a day, about 30 students write, rehearse, direct, and perform five short plays. Even more impressively, the fifth is often a musical with original songs...
Enigma is the intrigue of “The Untitled Project,” a self-conscious play that breaks the barrier between audience and actor, and focuses on the very process of making theater. The hour-long show will run in multiple locations—ranging from the Signet Society to the Holyoke Center Gallery—from Friday to Sunday, and aims to separate itself from the typical trajectory of many of today’s plays by remaining somewhat mysterious...
...relationship between actor and audience is achieved by certain interactive moments, moments that vary from show to show, and which are not under the actors’ control. Theater, says Davies, is often all about control. But so much of this play depends on what is happening in the room before the show starts, or the way the audience responds, that control seems to dissipate. Davies intends to make people unsure of whether theater can do more than just put a story on stage, whether it can blend the border between reality and fiction...
...essence, Jim is a musician who has the ability both to play and to sculpt his instrument, and the students in the choirs are the most essential part of that instrument...
Both of these issues highlight the ways in which the community and the institutions that serve it can become misaligned, and are tensions that Linden is looking to subvert even in the presentation of his play. For example, there is no line dividing the musicians from the actors...