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...plays Bolingbroke, says that he partially modeled his character on McEnroe whom he claims shares Bolingbroke’s peculiar sense of anger.“It has to be endearing and oddly understandable,” he explains. This choice is indicative of this production??s attention to contemporary objects and fascinations. “Our set is built from the objects and images you’d find walking through the Quad on an early Sunday morning,” according to Zalisk.But “Richard II” is already a staple...
When Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s “The Isle of the Dead”—which forms half of this week’s Loeb Ex production??premiered in Sweden in 1907, it made a name for itself in only one way: as a tremendous failure. The play, which flopped, has rarely been performed in the almost 100 years since, and it has never before been seen by American audiences...
...Cell Block Tango” is the peak of the choreography—in fact, the peak of the entire production??s artistic achievement. In this scene, the lighting, music, and costumes all come together to enhance an amazing choreographic scene. The scene begins with hazy, red-bordered silhouettes of six jail girls dancing fluidly behind screens—before the girls emerge for a mind-blowing dance, featuring a lively group number and a unique solo by each of the dancers...
...learned, having done it so many times, is organizing what’s going on behind the table,” she says.This semester, she will direct J.M. Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World,” her second Mainstage production??an honor many Harvard directors don’t experience once. In addition to her artistic background, Spillane-Hinks brings to it an intellectual familiarity: the playwright is the subject of her thesis in Folklore and Mythology, of which this staging will be a part.Still, her intimate knowledge of this...
...play was the 20 percent of the audience that was [made] uncomfortable,” he says. So, if the original play version drew such negative reactions, why did Robbins decide to film it for DVD? Ironically, he says he was inspired by a group of journalists.During the production??s four-month, sold-out New York run, the administrative staff regularly invited war journalists, who had just returned from Iraq, to see the show and participate in the talk-back sessions. Robbins says these reporters expressed newfound uneasiness with the war.“What made...