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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like everyone else in the play, the twins' employer Orson (Jerry Ruiz '00) doesn't realize that he's dealing with two different people when he hires them: he thinks they're both a boy named "Charlie." Because Cockburn and Gambuto sport such similar attire--black T-shirts, vinyl pants and Jacques Cousteau-type knit hats--and adopt the same earnest tone of voice, Orson's mistake is actually credible. Sebastian and Viola are equally unaware that they are both working for Orson: each presumes the other dead. "Charlie" acts as romantic go-between for Orson, carrying the latter...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Your Own Thing' Tries Revamping 'Twelfth Night,' Result Is Mixed | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...Twelfth Night) to rescue Olivia from the realization that she was really in love with a girl. Orson becomes aware of Viola-as-Charlie's affection for him and paces across the stage reading Freud aloud to clarify his feelings toward Charlie. The problem isn't in the performance--Ruiz plays Orson very well as a corny, unhip '70s throwback--but rather in the script. When Orson decides he is gay, Cockburn's pouty, teenage Viola--who, despite her masculine disguise, expects Orson to fall in love with her as a girl--is suitably distraught, convinced she will never have...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Your Own Thing' Tries Revamping 'Twelfth Night,' Result Is Mixed | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...Yesterday was just alright," said proprietor Cesar Ruiz on Saturday. "Hopefully we'll have more people in here after Monday...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Chelsea Vendors Upbeat | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

Aztec dancer Raul Ruiz, a third-year student at the Medical School, defined the concept behind the festivities in more mystical terms, going back to the idea that the festival blurs the line between life and death...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Parade Celebrates Day of the Dead | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

...These dance movements [of the procession] are the way in which we live in harmony with the cosmos and all the creations of mother earth," Ruiz said. "Mecatlicutli, the god of the under- world, when he calls us, he calls us to dance. Because death is a long dance...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Parade Celebrates Day of the Dead | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

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