Word: stonings
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Abid Baig is a salesman in a dried-fruits shop in Lal Chowk, the central shopping district of Srinagar, Indian Kashmir's capital. But Baig's real calling is as a stone thrower. A familiar figure at protests for azadi, or freedom, that regularly clog Srinagar's streets, 21-year-old Baig is angry, blaming the pervasive Indian security presence for choking off his chance at a decent life. His parents pulled him out of school when he was just in 10th grade because they worried that their only child would be picked up by police trolling for militants. Baig...
...good thing about having young alums and not big name people is that they are...trying to forge their career now and that’s what HRDC alums will do in one, two, three years from now,” Stone says. The audience seemed to find the panelists approachable, asking them questions about their thoughts on what city to move to after graduating and whether an agent is necessary. Alternating between questions from moderator Marcus Stern, associate director of the American Repertory Theater, and those from the audience, the panelists offered general advice on whether...
...preparation they received regarding how the theater industry works. “They should have an industry workshop where they teach people who want to act how to audition and how to get headshots because I didn’t know any of that,” Broadwater said. Stone agrees that a workshop is something that the HRDC could pull off with help from the A.R.T., which already teaches its students those basics...
Despite a small turnout, Stone sees the event as a good starting point for HRDC’s alumni initiatives, which have been expanding since the influx of alumni to Cambridge last year to celebrate the HRDC’s 100th anniversary. With a new alumni newsletter, Stone hopes to develop and strengthen the club’s relationship with alumni, while more panels on a larger scale help to fill the void of theater career advising...
...There’s this perception that having a successful career in theater is an extremely difficult thing to do, maybe even impossible,” Stone said. Echoing the sentiments of the panelists about the difficulties and possibilities of creating a career in theater from an HRDC background, Stone reiterated the importance of contacting alumni. “But from all the alumni that I’ve corresponded with, I’ve seen that a Harvard education 110 percent prepares you for that. It’s just that we aren’t so good...