Word: stanley
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...Morgan Stanley Managing Director Carla A. Harris ’84 shared five “pearls” of wisdom for post-Harvard success during the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) 10th annual Celebration of Black Women on Saturday night...
...Stanley is quickly disturbed by Meg’s announcement that two men are coming to rent a room, yet he refuses to tell her why. When slick Goldberg (Will LeBow) and bumbling yet imposing McCann (Remo Airaldi) finally show up, Stanley is extremely ill at ease because he seems to recognize them. Stanley becomes even more uncomfortable when Meg invites the two men to help her throw him a birthday party, and keeps insisting to the men that it is not even his birthday—but, curiously, not in front...
...birthday party itself is an ominous affair, consisting of several toasts to Stanley, for which Goldberg insists on turning out the lights and shining a flashlight in Stanley’s face, as if each toast was a criminal interrogation. After a few drinks, all other characters promptly ignore Stanley...
Shortly after the game begins, the power goes out, leaving the characters onstage as “in the dark” literally as the audience is figuratively. A brief moment of light from the flashlight reveals a half-crazed Stanley attacking Lulu, but little else of the evening’s events can be discerned. To add to the confusion, most of the characters fail to remember the evening’s alcohol-fueled mayhem the next morning. All that remains is Lulu’s indignant sense of violation and Stanley’s chilling descent into madness...
...simply magnetic, especially in the second act as Stanley’s nervous breakdown becomes complete. Terence Rigby is the play’s “straight man,” whose dry wit and easygoing manner evolves into endearing confidence, culminating in his last line to Stanley: “Don’t let them tell you what...