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Some students look back on their college artistic careers and remember standing ovations after plays or accepting praise as they stood beside their art work during gallery receptions. Benjamin T. Clark ’09, however, has taken a more independent path through the Harvard arts scene as technical director of a large portion of the sets for Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club productions. He has spent countless hours in the Loeb shop crafting scenes, working in the grid, and ensuring the safety of all involved in plays. “Me and Bruce [Springsteen] in the shop, that?...
...because there is no [dramatic arts] concentration, or that it’s all about the academics, but you can definitely pave your own way here.” Videt’s involvement with theater at Harvard began her freshman year when she was cast in four plays. She then moved behind the scenes, directing work in the New College Theatre, Loeb Mainstage, and the Loeb Experimental Theatre. Two of the shows she has directed were originally developed by the London theater company Complicite, including “Mnemonic” and “The Three Lives...
...member of Harvard theater began his creative exploration as a child, when he would orchestrate what he calls “haunted hayrides.” “We would create enormous spider webs, pyramids and pick-up trucks filled with hay,” he says. His play “Black-eyed Susanna,” written in his senior year of high school, won the Phyllis Anderson Prize for Playwriting in 2006 and was produced in Berlin the next year. “The play is about a mother and daughter on their wedding...
...sort of have an element of theater cross the boundary between performance and visual arts is exciting.”Visual arts were not always Laubacher’s main focus, however. “I was a jock my freshman year of high school and played three sports,” she says. “My sophomore fall I didn’t have anything to do. I attempted to be a performer and sucked at it, so I tried out tech.” A strong program at her high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, drew...
...weight of the world, the weight of his scenario. That interpretation is very Joycean, because Ulysses is about this complex thing, which is a very crushing atmosphere.” Joyce’s references to Hamlet in his own works also had concrete influences on the play. “There are some surprises I want to keep for the show, but basically, Joyce has a discussion in ‘Ulysses’ that is very subtle about Hamlet being a woman. That was huge,” says executive producer Rachel D. Libeskind...