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Zeke Mazur thinks that his wife and co-director, Aleksandra Makarova, a graduate student in Linguistics, should abandon her studies altogether to pursue her love for filmmaking. The two submitted a short scholarly film entitled “The Origins of Evil in Valentinian Agnosticism,” which explores one interpretation of “how worldly evil derived from the use of divine suffering...
...three Holden Choirs drive the half-hour it takes to reach Marvin’s house in Lexington, Massachusetts. There, they bask in the glow of the fire that Marvin tends (carefully, as if it were the fourth Holden chorus), drink eggnog, and converse with his oft-referenced wife Polly...
...Stephen Sondheim’s retelling of several classic fairy tales, Jack (of ‘Beanstalk’ fame), Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Cinderella all find themselves wandering in the same dark woods. Tying these various stories together is that of the Baker and his Wife, who search for the four items that will lift a curse that has been cast on them: “The cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, the slipper as pure as gold.” Sondheim?...
...Into the Woods” is necessarily an ensemble effort and, impressively, there is not a single weak link in this production. Samuel R. Schoenberg ’13 and Christine K. L. Bendorf ’10 are paired well as the Baker and his Wife, and the subtle evolution of their relationship over the course of the play forms a solid center for the many intertwining stories. A Sondheim veteran, Bendorf (who also acted as Johanna in 2008’s Mainstage production of Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd”) creates a character...
...Witch, whose curse the Baker and his Wife are trying to undo, undergoes a more dramatic physical and emotional transformation. Her role is also perhaps the most vocally taxing, a responsibility which Megan L. Amram ’10 pulls off with ease. Amram is by turns menacing, sympathetic, and hysterical as she belts, croons, and chants her way through the woods...