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That Day is a student-written, student-directed play born from the vision of Nina Sawyer '01. She translated and adapted a short story about a little boy's experience in Nazi-occupied Germany--which constitutes the first part of the play--and wrote the second half herself. That Day tackles the experience of two parallel families, one in France and the other in Germany, who for some unclear reason are suffering from World...
...lawyer," she says. "I was on the debating team; we'd re-create Parliament, and I won computers for our school." But a life as Marcia Clark was not to be. During her middle-school years, Friel became involved with a local theater group, performing in student-written plays. At 15, she landed her first TV role, as Michael Palin's daughter in the British series GBH. Film parts started to come soon after she was killed off in Brookside, and so too did a starring part in an impressive BBC production of Dickens' Our Mutual Friend...
...student-written and directed play focuses on a Harvard senior who is contemplating suicide. Triad, a drama, will play through...
...regards to the "traditionality" of the Pudding, I would remind supporters exactly what that history is (and isn't). Up until the turn of the century, the Pudding rarely presented student-written scripts. Its focus was on published operattas and parodies. Until the 1960s, the productions' support was chiefly organized by wealthy matrons of Boston society who promoted the values of Good Society while barring "undesirable" members. In 1951, the Woman of the Year Award was inaugurated. Shortly thereafter the Club and Theatricals split. Women were then allowed to work in costuming and make...
...impression I've gotten from people who've graduated...is that [student-written theatre] used to be a lot more abundant. I think we've seen a little more this semester, but I don't think that it quite plays the role it could. Nor is it always received in the medium it should be produced in. A lot of shows end up in the Loeb Experimental Theatre--but maybe they should end up in smaller places, or maybe there should be workshops. Last year the [Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club] Board staged student readings which was a great start...