Word: rausch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THEATREGOERS AT HARVARD will tell you that when it comes to extremely creative productions, the show that manages to break new ground and yet remain entertaining is rare indeed. Past local innovators like Paul Warner '84 and Bill Rausch '84 have not always been able to have their cake...
This fall, the Fine Arts concentrator worked with director Bill Rausch in the Kronauer Group, and played the roles of Medea. Lady Macbeth and Cinderella. Moore describes that experience as the most challenging of his acting career, saying. "I found out what acting was really about...
Best Friends and Club Founders Anne Gordon and Sally Rausch deliver monologues wholly devoid of irony on the brilliance of Republicans from Grant to Hoover and sound like soap opera shrinks...
...Luckily, Rausch edits most of the didactic verse--such as Auden's version of T.S. Eliot's conclusion to The Wasteland (Auden: "Repent... Unite ... Act"), or his awkwardly Marxist closing line: "To each his need, from each his power." Rauch leaves in those speeches pointing to the concerns more relevant to his summer audience: "Take sex, for instance... Sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's said, but it's always hanging about like a smell of drains...
...shows. The adaptation (by Donald and Owen Davis) is little-known, though it was successful on Broadway in the 1930s and again on a rief tour in the '70s But while those productions demanded an elaborate naturalistic set--not the Ex's style, to be sure--director Bill Rausch is exploring the effects of gray paint and suspended bare trees (borrowed from the Harvard Forest) to create the "cold, stagnant environment where nothing ever changes"--the one usually associated with Wharton's spare style...