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...Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol” is a play haunted by regrets, misfortune, and ghosts, both real and imagined. This Mainstage production, directed by Catherine “Calla” I. Videt ’08 and produced by Matt I. Bohrer ’10, maintains an otherworldly aspect throughout its time upon the stage. Running through April 14, the play is an impressionistic look at the life and death of the title character, a poor and often friendless woman living in the French countryside. The result is a fascinating—but occasionally impenetrable?...
...Videt also amplifies the more abstract aspects of the play, often to great effect. For instance, people around Lucie often repeat a few gestures mechanistically, leaving the main characters as the only ones who really move and see. On the other hand, this directorial choice can also result in a lack of clarity: When Jean relates an anecdote about Lucie going fishing in a booming, portentous voice that—if read on the page—would seem much more lighthearted, it seems like the acting has more to do with creating a general mood and less...
Sound, co-designed by Videt and Nicholas J. Shearer ’09, also plays a highly noticeable role in the production. Instead of music, scenes frequently end with an almost underwater-sounding roar that builds up from a whisper and eventually overwhelms the voices. It adds a certain feeling of unreality and almost of dread to the play, and works well as a counterpoint to the action at its more surreal moments...
...that mold. “She’s very tall and very lovely and beautiful, which is not what Lucie in fact is,” says producer Mollie M. Kirk ’07. Specific physical descriptions were not a priority when Kirk and director C. Calla Videt ’08 cast the production. “We wanted people who were aware of their bodies, who were able to make rhythm, who were interested in listening to music and being creative,” Kirk says. The emphasis on physical awareness is key in HRDC?...
...professional jealousy, and the hostess is determined to open every emotional wound in the room, the result is less awkward and more cataclysmic. That, in a nutshell, is Moira Buffini’s “Dinner,” directed by Catherine “Calla” Videt ’08 and produced by Ben M. Poppel ’09, which is playing at the Loeb Ex through next Saturday, Nov. 4. The play unfolds nearly in real time, depicting the course of a dinner party thrown by Paige (Renée L. Pastel...