Word: wagman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director Nela Wagman '84, in her first stint as director, does a superb job. Wagman's challenge is to let three characters in one room be neither distracting nor dull. Even at their best, the actors seemingly move spontaneously under her subtle direction...
...seating on cushions in the Adams House JCR can become uncomfortable at times but works well in throwing the audience deeper into the dramatic center. Wagman keeps the set sparse and unobtrusive, utilizing the faded sofa pillows from the JCR and adding only two chairs. The standard minimalist setting is supplemented only by a coffee tray and liquor stand. Wagman has just the right amount of cigarette lighting, coffee pouring and brandy sipping, to parallel the growing tension in the room...
...Although Wagman is a bit heavy handed with the possible lesbian relationship between Anna and Kate, she clearly avoids over interpreting Pinter's terse dialogue. The talent and experience of the three actors allows them to deliver convincingly Pinter's idea that the past is only the way we remember it and we respond accordingly. As Anna says during the play, "There are things that I remember which may never have happened but as I recall them so they take place...
...just the right balance of technical skill and humanitarian insight--it's really something special," adds Nela Wagman, another longtime friend and colleague. "I haven't been directed by anyone at Harvard who comes close...
About 7,000 stores in the U.S. sell applications software. Softsel, the largest distributor to retail stores, adds about 200 new products a month to its catalogue, which already includes nearly 3,000 titles. Says Chairman David Wagman: "The demand is colossal." Anyone who visits a computer store, looks in a catalogue or picks up one of the many computer magazines is confronted by a stunning but often confusing array of products. Some of the newest titles...