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...shares so many qualities with playwriting. Each form helps me to think in the other one. The tools you need for dramatic writing cross over between the media, but the actual media is very different. You have to think in images and spare dialogue in movies whereas in the theater you have a compressed space and bodies on stage...
...What has been the greatest challenge in going from Australian theater to American theater? CME: Trying to get the rhythm and tone and mood of the theater here has definitely been the biggest challenge. Tuning my eye to American speech has been quite a difficult thing but quite a beautiful thing. There is this expectation in America that plays end on a positive note. There is this need for redemption. The religion in this country is very deeply embedded. Australia is a much more cynical place. Several of my favorite playwrights are British and they tend to be more comfortable...
...Michael Grendel: Slain by Beowulf in Sanders Theater, an act of epic poetic Justice...
...three minutes ‘til one, laptops click closed, backpacks zip open and jackets crinkle on. Professor Tal Ben-Shahar ’96 tries unsuccessfully to finish his thought, but many miss even that: They’re already pouring out of Sanders Theater, sizing up a Positive Psych lecture that’s not even over. Packing up before professors finish speaking is the norm in many of Harvard’s large lecture halls. Of course, a few of these early departures face a marathon dash to Vanserg and have earned the right to leave. Most...
...Douglas Carter Beane’s “The Little Dog Laughed,” a sharp chamber comedy that fiercely satirizes Hollywood wheeling and dealing and probes issues of gay identity in the popular media.The Tony-nominated play makes its New England premier at the Wembly Theater at the Calderwood Pavillion, directed by Paul Melone and running through Feb. 16.The play focuses on Mitchell Green (Robert Serrell), a young actor confused about his sexual orientation and attempting to reconcile a budding public life with a newfound relationship with Alex (Johnathan Orsini), a New York callboy whom Mitchell orders...