Word: roles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gomes serves as a religious role model to some at Harvard...
...friend of a friend, I got my hands on a play called In Between O'Clock by Michael Ragozzino 01. I read it in one blast (now if only I could do that with my other reading) It's a wicked little existential story with a fantastic lead role (Mike wrote the play as an independent study with mentor Adrienne Kennedy, award-winning playwright and Harvard professor) and I'm entirely curious as to how something so thoughtful on page will effectively reach an audience. Oooooh. Ohhhhhh. The buzz is hot, I thought. I approached Mike and played it cool...
...Part of this believability comes from the strength of the acting. Tobey Maguire plays Homer perfectly. He bings an ideal mix of innocence and naivete to the role, but he also imparts a mature intelligence gained during his days in the orphanage. Homer might be innocent, but he certainly can't be labeled stupid. When dealing with expectant mothers, he learns to read between the lines and sense what's really going on behind the expressions on people's faces...
...script is subtle and complex, and this production takes full advantage of its depth. Nor is it one-sided: as we learn from a ten-year correspondence (often wonderfully interactive on stage) between Karen and Bibi, Karen feels stifled by the oppressive Chinese regime that imposes the role of a "good citizen" on its people at the expense of the individual. Karen feels like "a beautiful bird in a cage" whose colors will never be seen nor its song heard. Reading about America and the freedom allowed in the West in books sent by Bibi only makes Karen more depressed...
...While it was very clear that action was needed, Washington played a major role in influencing the decision to take no action," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Having just come out of the Somalia debacle, which had been badly managed by both the U.S. and the U.N., Washington didn't want to get involved in another complex conflict in Africa." Of course, while the solutions were complex, the numbers were devastatingly simple: 800,000 people were killed in one month in Rwanda as Hutu mobs butchered their Tutsi neighbors...