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Hecht’s facility for breakdowns is part of what makes the Nixon administration scenes the strongest. While this section also suffers from trite politicizing—Myra’s declaration that one day her slogans will seem naïve isn’t really prescient if it was written decades later—the play, and Steinemann’s directing, is much more focused on the characters, and the show is stronger for it. Myrna reveals a bit of a psychotically vicious streak that makes her far more entertaining, while Myra robs a bank...
...laundry every week? Unheard of. Irregular bathing schedules? Absurd. Engaging in sexual contact with another resident of your dormitory, especially in Pennypacker? Surely you jest! But alas, while we all slept innocently in our narrow beds, thinking of nothing but course packs and profound questions to ask during section, scabies crept into our lives (for some quite literally—the mite Sarcoptes scabiei tunnels into the skin of humans). Two Saturdays ago, three Pennypacker residents reached the end of their ropes after discovering rashes. And so they took their queries to the one place we all know and trust...
Last week, I went to Widener to retrieve an essay for my tutorial and found myself (a displaced history and literature concentrator) wandering around the psychology section a few floors underground. The book “Satanic Ritual Abuse: Principles of Treatment,” by Colin A. Ross caught...
...mundane. His skeletal poems skillfully tie together the past and the present, exploring the capacity of collective memory and selective forgetting while leaving ample room for readers to reach their own conclusions about human suffering and contemporary existence. Pinsky divides “Gulf Music” into three sections. The first poems, which explore the human capacity to both cause and endure suffering, tackle current events such as Hurricane Katrina and the horrors of Guantánamo. Pinksy adopts a personal tone, asking, “What could your children boast about you?” He then turns...
...plot-driving factor. Stern envisioned the set with a clock counting down until Halloween as an ever present focal point of the set, which itself is a mystery. Designed by Matt McAdon, the set will combine all the different scenes from the film into one piecemeal place divided into sections. Each scene of the play will take place in one lighted section of the set, with the rest blacked out, suggesting, for example, Donnie’s school or a field. The costuming, rehearsal and adaptation processes have all been dynamic, the creators say. “Marcus has been...