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directed by Daniela Raz...
This year the performance has taken a new turn under director Daniela Raz, who hopes to widen the play's audience. In conversation with The Crimson, she said she would like to see the play done before "people who wouldn't normally see it, for small audiences that can really interact...
Calling It Rape, directed by Sonia Rasminsky, makes both men and women's experience with date rape an issue undeniably "worthy of notice." The production involves three men (Donald Britton, Sam Ferre, Robert deNeufville) and four women (Dulcy Anderson, Elizabeth Humphrey, Mary Dixie Carter, Daniela Raz). Jessye Lapenn, one of the coordinators to Take Back the Night events this year, praised Calling It Rape. "It was important for us to involve art in our discussions of rape and domestic violence. Art has been used to subjugate women and women's bodies in subtle ways; it's important to reclaim...
...male actors spoke about fear that they would be seen only in the role of the aggressor. They pointed out that men can also be victimized by the rape of women when that woman is a sister, a mother, a girlfriend. Looking at it from that perspective, as Daniela Raz suggests, "It doesn't have to be women against men [in fighting date rape]. It can be victims and lovers of victims against victimizers and perpetrators...
...sexual acquiescence. Rasminsky juxtaposes two versions of the scene in A Streetcar Named Desire in which Stanley carries Blanche off to bed, the first version as a seduction, the second as a rape: the dialogue in both versions is identical, suggesting that the question of literal consent remains problematic. Raz contends that popular culture pretends that consent is not problematic: "Stanley is a big bad hero, infamously protrayed by Marlon Brando. But a lot of our literary heroes depend on power and sexual control...