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COMPLETED. DORIS ("GRANNY D") HADDOCK, 90, arthritic New Hampshire activist who walked 3,200 miles across the U.S. to highlight congressional foot dragging over campaign-finance reform. Haddock, who covered 10 miles a day for 14 months, wore a steel back brace and a vest emblazoned with GRANNYD.COM, which has a reform petition and a list of "Granny's Dirty 30" corporations undermining American democracy...
...palette, complete with dried patches of mixed paint, and wrapped it in the linen he used to stretch his canvases. LeWitt enclosed a tiny white cube, in which was a scrap of paper with ambiguous instructions: "a line, not straight, corner to corner." Artschwager created within the frame of steel a wooden box that opened onto ever smaller boxes. Buren avoided the responsibility of prediction altogether and had given his box to a friend to fill. Inside, the other artist had lined the box with Buren's signature red-and-white stripes. It became clear at the unveiling of Time...
...nine days representing a span of 18 months in the life of Barbs, she never once pauses to consider the effects of her dramatic actions. She never once considers the difficulties of being a single parent, the effect her affair with a 26 year old student, Grant Steel (Ciaran Crawford) will have on her close friendship with Grant's mother, or how to effectively communicate with her own mother. By the end of the play, one leaves wishing that at least one of these serious issues had been resolved...
...Tegan Shohet '01 has the curious role of Mrs. Walker, a wise and vaguely omniscient old woman who Gary visits nightly. Although her character is not bound to the plot with hoops of steel, she gets to play the always-welcome role of explainer, which she does with maturity and a small dose of convincing senility. Theodora Konetsovska, a visiting student from Williams, plays the ghost of Gary's dead sister, Sarah. The script calls for too many appearances of Sarah's ghost for her role to be as poignant as it could, but Konetsovska deals with her ubiquity...
...Above: Peter Richards, "Sleep With Me," 1999, paper, steel, beeswax...