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...choice but to commit to a cheesy delivery. Thankfully, Carell rescues the film with the comic timing for which he is known. While hackneyed lines tend to trivialize his more emotional moments, Carell’s self-deprecating humor reveals his understanding of a deeper character beneath the script??s more obvious jokes. Overall, such groan-inducing ploys are the weakest point of “Dan in Real Life.” Several family discussions debate the film’s blatant concerns, including “Will Dan ever find love again...
...Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” made its debut in 1962, but the script??s mix of the complex and the comprehensible fits it into any stage at any time, provided there are capable people at the helm. The Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s (HRDC) production of the play is proof...
...Maybe some people who graduated from college in the early ’90s really do scream at each other for fun, but the yelling happens to grate on my nerves. The new title certainly isn’t much more appropriate than the old one—the script??s wedding only serves as an excuse to reunite friends in vacationland. “Sing Now” follows a closely-knit a cappella group that reunites 15 years after graduation to celebrate the wedding of its seventh member. After a narrated flashback of the cast singing...
...Grandmother’s Struggles” and “Department of Social Services”—is a bittersweet and wryly comical vignette of life on the other side of the tracks. There is a good deal of stereotyping and caricature in the script??complete with rappers, drug dealers, and prostitutes. But considering the BlackCAST actors’ abilities to employ those caricatures to profound dramatic effect, that exaggeration of character was not a bad thing...
...experience is about watching the actors act. Sometimes theater can get lost in creating huge effects. This is sort of bringing it down to a simpler level again,” Golin says. Simple as it may be, co-producer Stephen T. Volpe ’07 believes the script??s universality will appeal to Harvard students. “The majority of people in our generation grew up in cars, whether it’s getting in fights, making out with someone, or going to IHOP late at night with a bunch of people...