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...whirling its four doors, all with different heights and configurations of knobs and mounted in stark white and green walls. Although he was dressed in a red onesie, and spoke often of an imaginary princess, Cosgrove’s childishness was never overwrought. And as he frantically paced the stage, his tie flapping, patient Jon (Michael R. Wolfe ’09) successfully encapsulated the caricature of a businessman, a stumbling sycophant, and a poignant romantic in one character. Wolfe’s contorting arms seemed to spin his elaborate lies into being, while the fits of lock-jawed trembling...
...Seidel says he was pulled into local politics by a sense that demographic shifts had pushed the city into a new stage in its history with “a whole new set of challenges...
...more exaggerated, from the humorous to the shocking. The result is a second half that is much stronger than the first. The set (designed by J. Michael Griggs) literally comes apart, starting as a self-contained room and ending up with the side walls completely turned around and the stage open all the way to the miscellaneous props and lights in back. While it is occasionally distracting when a stagehand has to wheel in a spotlight from the side, on the whole the set design is extremely effective and showcases the capabilities of the New College Theatre...
...murder occurred in the Agassiz Theatre this past weekend. “Bodas de Sangre” began as an unexciting stage drama. But the second act was filled with all the blood and aggression characteristic of a crime of passion—and by the end, nobody was complaining. “Bodas de Sangre” (“Blood Wedding”), written by the Spanish genius Federico Garcia Lorca in 1932, premiered as the first all-Spanish play to have ever been performed in a Harvard theatre. Directed by Christopher N. Hanley...
...accomplished just that. In the sunken, small, and aged Pool Theatre, a strong sense of modesty is crucial to the production of a high-profile play. Director Anna C. Smith ’09 and producer Max A. Hume ’09 made clever use of low-tech stage equipment in the set, designed by Smith and Stephany Y.Z. Lin ’11, and kept the focus on the superb leading actors...