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...Dad” doesn’t have a plot so much as a set of relationships that provide a pretext for mounting hysteria. There’s Madame Rosepettle (Alexandra C. Palma ’08) and her emotionally stunted son Jonathan (Jonah C. Priour ’09), whose excessively tight-knit relationship makes Norman Bates look well-adjusted. Intruding into their claustrophobic domesticity in a hotel in Havana are Rosalie (Sophie C. Kargman ’08), in love with Jonathan, and Commodore Roseabove (S. Adam Goldenberg ’08), in love with Rosepettle. The main...
...breaks down entirely. Characters who were bellboys in the first half (played by Jonathan J. Carpenter ’07, Allan S. Bradley ’11, and Sam D. Stuntz ’10) become figures from Rosepettle’s past as she describes her relationship with her dead husband. They later embody the plant and fish of the epic battle scene, allowing the play to fully embrace an element of surrealism as it heads toward its remarkable climax...
...basic solution is honesty, mutual understanding, and respect for one another. In this way, we can resolve the issues we all face and hope to amend. This type of relationship should go beyond any formal process, and must come as a commitment from every involved party. During my time here, I would hope to be part of such commitment...
...issues of death and the afterlife are made simple and casual. In “To my soul (2),” Valentine addresses her soul and simply ponders whether or not she will miss it in the next life. Beautifully ending the poem with a comparison of the relationship she once had with her soul to the ordinary but poetic—“coffee grains / brushed across paper . . .”—Valentine leaves the reader floating on her words.Death, the afterlife, and desperation may be dark and weighty issues, but in Valentine?...
...forsake my nutritional but meatless diet for one that involved filet mignon and red wine on payday and a strict diet of ramen for the second half of every week. This is the danger and the beauty of food writing. It influences your daily life by changing your own relationship to food—and it can become addictive itself. Prompted by the release of “Ratatouille,” I attempted to expand my interest from books to movies. Unfortunately, American cinema de cuisine tends to be as soulless as mainstream American cooking. Witness this summer?...