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...felt like a play rather than an unrelated series testimonials. In ways as subtle as casting and as apparent as the set, she successfully resurrected the play's most interesting ambiguities. Three actresses, for example, appear twice on the stage. In "Lamps" at the beginning of the second act, Search wears the costume she was putting on in "15 Minutes." Is "Lamps" the play she was preparing for? Is this the "lacerating self-exposure" she told us of? And when Shionoiri gives birth to the dragons on stage while satirizing the Catholic saints she invokes, we can only guess whether...
...script of Talking With looks spare. It is a series of 11 monologues narrated by 11 women--eleven vibrant and madly insightful crazies, characters impossible to ignore or forget. The script looks like a treasure trove for talented actresses in search of audition monologues, but the monologues, strung across the pages of a script look only like the rants of 11 disembodied voices. Such a script does not promise to showcase directorial brilliance...
...Phoebe Search '00 appears on stage in the first sketch called '15 Minutes." She is an actress putting on her makeup in the mirror--"getting ready," she says sarcastically, "for an evening of 'lacerating self exposure."' When she orders the house lights to come up and inspects the audience, she is not talking at us, but with us (as the play's title promises us she should). This first sketch is crucial; it reveals the intrinsic theatricality of the play. Jessica Shapiro '01 plays the show's second actress--a demented twenty-something with a plan to kill...
...play's first thoughtful, quiet moment, Tracey Thomas '00, plays, with an uncanny knack for whimsy and controlled grief, a daughter mourning her mother's death in the scene called "Glass Marbles." Search reappears for "Lamps," to become a graceful older woman captivated by the light of her lamp-filled apartment...
...patients, nor is it a permanent cure. Though one of the most important legislative acts of the Clinton Administration was the lifting of the ban on fetal tissue transplant research to aid Alzheimer's and Parkinson's in 1993, increased funding and public awareness are still lacking in the search for a true cure for the disease...