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Guiteau, played by Oussama Zahr ’03, has another such number. Endearingly overbearing throughout, Zahr cakewalks while ascending the gallows, performing the upbeat number with the thinly masked confusion and desperation that the song demands...
celled before as Gilbert and Sullivan’s tragic jester, Jack Point, but Oussama Zahr ’04 makes it difficult to imagine that the part could have been created for anyone else. With a knack for showing utter despair while flashing a bigger smile than a hopeful at the last punch event, he is the driving center of the most entertaining Gilbert and Sullivan show in recent Harvard memory...
...right from the get-go, Zahr conveys a depth of emotion not fully suggested by the script. Though his stage direction after the scene is simply to step aside as the chorus moves in, Zahr deftly picks up on all the nuances in the tragi-comic libretto and goes on gesturing and mumbling to himself, trying to justify his action...
...incomplete nature of that illusion is conveyed by the frantic energy Zahr exerts on stage. Acting out every word he utters, rattling them off at a mile a minute, he goes through life constantly hiding reality from himself (and vice versa) with explosive comedic diversions...
Audience members will recognize elements of themselves in Point, which is what helps make Yeomen so powerful. Though the psychology of his character is troubling, Zahr is a joy to watch—and he is not the only actor on stage with considerable presence. Yet the piece is still unmistakably Gilbert and Sullivan: the operative words remain comedic diversions...