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...gross directorial misstep, Stern makes McCabe physically run from spot to spot on Matt McAdon’s bare-bones set. At one moment, he’s lying down in a therapy session at the bottom-right corner of the stage. But before the therapist finishes her last sentence, Donnie is forced to jog to the upper-left corner to have a quiet romantic moment with his new girlfriend...
Most of the company is similarly blameless, but that doesn’t make them interesting to watch. Karen McDonald gets a few laughs as an uptight, dim-witted gym teacher. Thomas Derrah is more entertaining as a motivational speaker, but is never on stage long enough to exude anything other than superficial sliminess. Sarah Jorge Leon, as one of Donnie’s teachers, is the only performer who actively wastes her own stage time, sounding immature in scenes where she should be speaking as the voice of reason...
...stage is set.With its 23-7 victory over Penn at home on Saturday, the Harvard football team continued its undefeated run through the Ivy League following an uninspiring 1-2 start to the season and ensured that sole possession of the Ancient Eight title will be on the line in the Crimson’s upcoming battle against Yale in New Haven.Harvard (7-2, 6-0 Ivy) used its formidable defensive attack while putting together a few key scoring drives to beat the Quakers (3-6, 2-4 Ivy) in front of a crowd of 10,116 on Senior Day.The...
Although there are only a few moments in which there is actually only one character on stage, the drama nevertheless centers around an individual performance. In Maggie and Brick’s first scene, Rich rattles off an impressive soliloquy. Brick lies listlessly on the bed and the relatives make a hullabaloo back stage, but Rich seems to be the only person in the theater. While Rich initially over-dramatizes her frustration, her character becomes increasingly real over the course of the play...
Rather than populating the stage with the live cadavers of other Southern writers like Faulkner, the cast of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” brings the passions of Tennessee Williams’ 1950’s south to explosive life...