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...members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) board were dismayed to read the review of the Experimental Theatre (Ex) performance of Patrick Tan's Straightlines that graced your "On Arts" page on Friday, March 2. Our objection is not with the content of the review itself, but with the fact that the show was reviewed...
Spring break for many undergraduates means sandy beaches with a sun setting in the distance and tan bodies streched out near the ocean. But for 28 Harvard students, the last week in March will mean a trip to rainy and humid Luxembourg to manage the third annual Harvard Model Congress Europe (HMCE) conference...
Some of the images Tan creates are effective portraits. In one piece, called "Positron," two twins, one wearing white, the other black, slowly dance to Philip Glass' "Metamorphosis One," and exchange clothes. Then one twin carries the other off the stage...
Even if we occasionally wonder if some of the scenes were created around what Tan found in the American Repertory Theater prop room, we are often startled by their power...
...with a different set of expectations and a little patience, Straightlines is an enjoyably different and sometimes extremely creative performance. The purpose of art, is has been said, is to disturb, not reassure. Tan will not reassure us with convention. This is not a "regular play," and if the playwright leaves us shifting in our seats and glancing at one another, maybe it is we who should readjust...