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...play opens with a celebratory dinner for Marlene, who has just received a promotion over a man at her job with a career placement agency in London. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (Adele Jerista), the world traveler, Lady Nijo (Scottie Thompson), a former courtesan in the Japanese court, Pope Joan (Emma Firestone ’05), the only woman to ever hold the papal office, Dull Gret (Emily J. Carmichael ’04), the subject of a Bruegel painting, and Patient Griselda (Sarah E. Curtis...
Jerista and Thompson at times were guilty of overacting in the first act during their fight for prominence. Carmichael’s presence was a welcome one in her ability to express physically what the others seemed to have difficulty with on a verbal level. Firestone’s Joan was tastefully well done—the entire theatre came to a standstill as she described the details of an unexpected childbirth and subsequent death with an eerie calm...
...elements of her psychological struggle for peace with her past. The same actors reappeared in acts two and three, representing people in Marlene’s real life. The versatility of the actors were an especial boon to the production. Props go to Thompson for an effortless transition and continuity between her roles. Cassie L. Fliegel ’06 as Marlene was solid but uninteresting in the first act, but Fliegel’s subtlety turned out to be a true plus. The contrast between the successful career woman...
When Richard Clarke appeared before the 9/11 commission last week, Republican panelist James Thompson abruptly challenged him to reconcile his damning book with a contradictory pro--Bush Administration statement. "We have your book, and we have your press briefing ... Which is true?" Is Clarke, terrorism czar for the past two Administrations, a truth teller or a lying opportunist...
...Mark Thompson...