Word: robertses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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written and directed by Margaret Roberts
Student-written theater has all the advantages and disadvantages of unbridled freedom. Unfettered by endless revision and polishing, or years of play-writing experience and performance before live audiences, new student-written plays are often messy, but sometimes transcendent in their rawness. Nobody's You, a new play by Margaret...
Set in a tony suburb of Dallas, Nobody's You aspires to nothing beyond frivolous entertainment: a bit of comedy here, a bit of romance there, all mediated by the Southern accents and smooth dialogue of Roberts' script. The production is by no means flawless, and the plot smacks of...
Though the plot is fairly conventional and sometimes contrived, Roberts' script is a well-written and coherent student effort. She has a good ear for dialogue, and a sharp sense of humor that hits more often than it misses. Nobody's You is her second script produced at Harvard (her...
This time around, Roberts decided to direct her own script (Andrew Ehrlich, the director of Hell On A Platter, served as Assistant Director for this production); the choice was a good one. Writers often run into trouble directing their own plays. Their personal involvement with the script can get in...