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...think there’s this thread of idiosyncracy and personal inflection in what I write. What’s important to me is to confuse that. Some people define things as either personal or political, and I’d rather taint either side of that with the other. People have politics. Politics inform people, and then they live their lives differently. People often react to ‘Her Baldness’ as a highly personal thing,” Lord says, stressing that such a view misrepresents the book’s aims...
...considering going where my brothers went, but I wanted to do my own thing,” Jeff said. “It would have been cool to play with my brother Terrence at [Duke], but I just liked what Harvard had more… like the coach, the team, Boston, being in an urban city… and the education is top to none...
...frustrated mother. She injects humor into all of these roles, especially with lines such as her distracted dismissal of her son: “Can’t you go play with the dead bodies or something? You’re eleven; you should like that sort of thing.” Palmer rises to the occasion in every scene, softening her character’s sharp and inaccessible edges and bringing empathy and nuance to a difficult part...
...important in how you initially visually perceive a production,” says Beth G. Shields ’10, “because it is the fixed thing in the show. As the action, the story, and the time change, the set can really guide the audience through the atmosphere the way that the dialogue guides you through the literal events of the story...
...It’s a hard thing to work with because a lot of times people know what they want the set to look like and do,” Shields says. “There’s a constant revision process and you have to find a balance between the set being interesting… and facilitating the action of the play. It can be a challenging process particularly as you work with new directors whose ideas change quite a bit… and as you try to nail down what you’re doing more...