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...relationship, the therapist plot line takes up far too much time and leaves the viewer wondering why it occupied nearly half the movie, when it was merely a spring board for the love story. Six years in the making, “Prime”’s script, written by director Ben Younger (“Boiler Room”), pays such meticulous attention to detail that the characters become unreal during their many perfect, philosophical monologues. The audience practically groans when Rafi declares during a therapy session, “I was married...
...humor and grief of the play, and she does an admirable job of engaging the audience and creating interest in the life of the woman. She portrays the woman’s complexity of emotion without misstep, avoiding the temptation to overplay the intense aspects of the script...
However, such layered themes do not hinder Hughes and his cast in their creation of an entertaining production. Set in the sophisticated high societies of Berlin and Paris in the late 19th century, the first two acts are characterized by a wry wit. With a script chock-full of sophisticated double entendres and copious phallic symbols, these acts showcase a wonderfully funny Joshua Clay Phillips ’07 as he portrays the simple and perpetually astonished Schwarz (Lulu’s second husband...
Such conflict between the artistic ideal and imperfect reality is the central conflict of the play; the “Lulu” script strives to convey the wretchedness of human lives lived in constant comparison and aspiration to unattainable artistic perfection. In one of the most successful campus dramas in recent memory, “Lulu” deftly achieves this goal, shifting what could have been a flippant, conventional story of one girl’s corruption and social downfall to a poignant and serious examination of the shortcomings of the human condition...
...Kawaller’s Sophie seems to succeed in her mission, it is largely because of the “father-daughter” dynamic, which is somewhat forcibly and awkwardly established in the script between Mahler and Sophie from the beginning of the play. (At one point, Sophie pointedly asks Mahler, “What is your father’s name? Robert?” to which Mahler responds, “My name is Robert.”) The sometimes clumsy script is ably repaired by the quality of the interaction between the two players...