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Learning to live and navigate in a foreign country—“finding ways to make it ‘your own,’ so to speak”—is a useful “life lesson,” Spillman wrote in an e-mail...
...actors make up the cast: Mike G. Jordan ’08 plays Dennis, a manipulative drug-dealer; Daniel R. Peccia ‘08-’09 is Warren, Dennis’s doormat friend who comes into his own as the play progresses; and Andrea M. Spillman ’07, who dresses in pink spandex to play Jessica, the young woman Warren falls for. Although the three are on stage all together only once, their tangible chemistry supports the action at all times...
...Maureen, Davey’s Vietnamese wife who is actually from Schenectady, Andrea Spillman ’07 is a cheerful escapee from Vietnam whose eyes grow vacant as the play progresses and she retreats into a fantasy world. A former child prostitute now ogled and molested by her in-laws, Maureen finds America uncomfortably like the land she has just left. In a cutting satire of liberal guilt, the revelation of Maureen’s heritage sends Davey into a suicidal depression, leaving his wife to fend for herself. The play’s other victim is Harry (David...
...meeting. It helped direct me away from involvement in activities that would have ruined my life--drugs, pornography and violence. I applaud the efforts of anyone who takes the time to share moral principles with young children before they have been ensnared by the dangers of the world. SUE SPILLMAN Warrenton...
Individualism in the young is also a large factor. "The majority of young people are having increasing difficulty seeing the army as the school of the nation," says sociologist Karl W. Haltiner of the Military Affairs Department in Zurich. Spillman agrees: "There is a weakening of the nation-state feeling and the need to defend...