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...over-the-hill 31)--to her mother's beach house, only to keel over with a heart attack as soon as the fun starts. His girlfriend promptly scampers back to the city, leaving him in the care of her divorced mom Erica (Diane Keaton), a tough-minded, successful playwright with no patience whatsoever for Harry and his boyish high jinks. But as the two are forced into each other's company, Harry sheds his lifelong bias against older women and Erica her carefully constructed emotional barriers. It's a December-December romance...
Whenever a Tom Stoppard play is produced, expectations are high. Stoppard is easily the world’s greatest living playwright, but his plays are full of obscure allusions, endless crescendos of jokes and sophisticated wit—and none of these are easy things for a production to pull off. So it was heartening to see Harvard students rise to the challenge of staging Stoppard this weekend, as the Winthrop House Drama Society staged his masterpiece The Real Thing in the Winthrop...
...between jokes about Jacobean playwrights and the Japanese economy, The Real Thing poses searching questions about love, literature, music and commitment: is the dazzlingly artificial better than the ugly and painful real thing—and just what is the real thing, anyway? Stoppard examines these questions by telling the story of Henry (Matthew J. Kozlov ’04), an intellectual playwright trying to hide the fact that he discusses existentialism’s superficiality on the one hand but listens to The Crystals and The Ronettes on the other, and Annie (Mysha K. Mason...
...four acts—all straight plays—get dreadfully dull despite their provocative subject matter, and the acting is too uneven to make the plays significantly more engaging. We’re led to wonder whether Knox wouldn’t have made a better essayist than playwright...
...Asian Bent,” it’s easy to spice up such stale material—by discussing, for example, how India still has laws to prevent what it calls “sex against the order of nature.” Gheri Dosti’s playwright and director Paul Knox discovered the complications caused for gays by the hostility of a tradition-bound society while he was exploring issues of HIV/AIDS in South Asia. Adding considerably to the show’s pathos, the five short plays which make it up are all based on true...