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...gives the instructions to her boat, and is responsible for its direction and speed. "Contrary to what most people think, the cox does not just sit in the boat and yell, 'stroke,'" says cox Diana Shaw. "I have to know a great deal about rowing so that I can coach the girls and correct any problems that may develop...
These benefits are augmented by what one woman describes as "the chance to meet and work with many new people. In crew, I meet a lot of people who I would probably otherwise never meet in my years at Harvard," Shaw says. "It's great to see people during the day who you can talk with about a common interest...
...Shaw also mentions another benefit of crew: "Many of the women on the team never had the chance to get extensively involved in a sport throughout high school. Crew is a chance for many of us to experience the jock life that is associated with sports...
...contrast, the minor roles are handled with a much greater sense of what Shaw is about. Cynthia Cardon is just right as Prossy, Morell's secretary and admirer, snapping out her consonants, as Shaw once suggested she should, with a "ten pound gun hammer spring." Thomas Champion, as Burgess, Candida's father, has a laudable Cockney accent, and Mariani himself oozes idolatrous servility as the cleric Lexy. One of the most successful scenes in the production is the comic encounter between Prossy, Burgess and Marchbanks; in this run-in with characters who have the outlines of caricature, Marchbanks' own exaggerated...
...that is worth saying is proper," Marchbanks tells Morell at one point. but Morell too has his share of Shavian aphorisms. "I like a man to be true to himself, even in wickedness," he lectures Burgess. If Morell the socialist and Marchbanks the poet are two different masks for Shaw himself, then the playwright was not only complex; in the terms of this production, he emerges as schizoid and asymmetrical...