Word: portering
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Seven hundred and seventy-three students enrolled in Hum 9b to hear principal lecturer Albert B. Lord, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, in what is reportedly his last year teaching the course...
...this show ushers guide the audience one by one into the darkened theater. People nervously shuffle their feet. Suddenly. a light flashes on in one of the halls outside the Ex; a woman (Veneitia Porter) sits on a chair facing the side. Throughout her monologue, which goes nowhere leading to nothing, lights flash in the audience. The lighting is, however, painfully predictable; Porter says "There was a flash of light," and, lo, a light flashes. As she talks about everything going black, hey, there just happens to be a blackout. These intermittent flashes light a set dotted by oppressive grey...
...BENEITIA PORTER'S acting, like the set, only obscures Beckett's script. Beckett himself might see nothing wrong here; his plays need not and sometimes cannot make sense on an intellectual level. But Krieger's concept of isolating Porter in the hallway ruins the drama of the piece...
...Porter lacks the dynamic presence which could drag the audience into her isolated world. Instead, we too, may be isolated, but this only makes it very difficult for us to relate to her character. The lack of rehersal time shows; Porter falters with the script often, seriously undermining the show's pacing...
...second play fares much better. After a minute break. Porter in white, black bra strap sliding down her arm, launches into a gutsy chat about her lost gloves, her almost lover, and her father's death. Here she has a character to play, and she plays it for all its worth. Her streetwise manner and stance never break as she cracks her jokes, and snares a light for her cigarette from a man in the audience, yet she is suddenly vulnerable remembering the pointlessness of her father's death. We can forgive her occasional stumbling, as she catches...