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Since the performance is based on an extremely patriarchal script by Peter Shaffer, casting decisions in the production are not surprising, just disappointing. The only female players to be found on the Mainstage are cast in the roles of sympathetic yet incomprehensible male Incas. It seems insensitive to make a conscious effort to cross-cast and yet cast women in only savage and subordinate roles...
This time against different competition, Captain Mark Leschly swept Devin Shaffer in singles, 6-4, 7-5, and had no problems teaming with Jon Cardi to knock off Penn's Welling and Nikos Hecht in doubles...
Harvard's Derek Brown and John Tolmie each captured three-set decisions in singles, with Tolmie winning his match on an 8-6 tiebreaker in the final set. The pair of sophomores then teamed up for a 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 decision in doubles over Levine and Shaffer. Crimson, 7-2 at Philadelphia...
...Danny Levine (Penn) d. Michael Zimmerman (HARVARD), 5-7, 6-2, 7-6; 2. Michael Shyjan (HARVARD) d. Glenn Welling (Penn), 6-7, 6-1, 6-0; 3. Mark Leschly (HARVARD) d. Devin Shaffer (Penn), 6-4, 7-5; 4. Derek Brown (HARVARD) d. Nikos Hecht (Penn), 6-2, 5-7, 6-3; 5. John Tolmie (HARVARD) d. Doug Eden (Penn), 3-6, 6-3, 7-6; 6. Ravi Kumar (HARVARD) d. Alex Schmid (Penn...
...Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) wrote this as a showcase for Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar winner who was last seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day in 1979. All her trademark mannerisms are in evidence, from the nasal drawl of contempt to the wounded-crow flutter of arms and hands. So is the open-wound vulnerability that brings her fey lunacy back to earth. She takes a character who is mostly an idea, a conceit -- a person for whom pretending is more real than reality -- and invests her with poignancy and pride. In spirit Lettice...