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Directed by Mark Prascak...
...director of Glengarry Glen Ross is the same guy who thought it would be a good idea to throw a bunch of actors into the Adams House swimming pool and charge people to watch them splash around. Mark Prascak, having toweled off from Peerless Gynt, is at it again with David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, and his aimless, rampant creativity detracts from an excellent script and some enjoyable acting...
...starters, Prascak doesn't bother with any nonsense like putting the play on a stage. Far too simple. Instead, he plops the action at two tables in the middle of the Currier House Fishbowl and places the audience at other tables in a U-shape around them. As a result, the audience sees half the actors from behind for the first act. Once, the actors switch seats so everyone can see their faces. Appreciated, but awkward...
...second act the action takes place throughout and even outside the room, and Prascak makes the audience stretch and twist continuously to comprehend everything that's going on. The actors rotate a lot in an attempt to display the play in front of the whole audience, but, inevitably, they inconvenience half the audience half the time. While the staging could be used to highlight the play's interaction between complex and often frustrated businessmen, in Prascak's hands it becomes an irritation...
Turned off by "a star cast system" and "a star techie system," Prascak and two other undergraduates are now forming an "alternative, non-elitist" theater company, Undergraduate Group Histrionics--or UGH. Prascak, Joseph Giani '89, director ofJesus Christ SuperstarandComedy of Errors,and others in the group say they will fill out the group during the next Common Casting, and that UGH will try to provide an outlet for directors and actors who want to work on "off-the-wall things," projects "that don't get put up in the houses." Sounds like what the Ex should...