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...needed a stiff drink after the Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre's presentation of Harold Pinter's play, "The Dumb Waiter." With remarkable restraint, Aaron Zelman and Mark Fish (the two characters Gus and Ben, respectively) pulled off what easily could have been a flat, boring piece of comedy. Under the direction of Chris Scully, they brought subtlety and nuance to the characters, fleshing out the obscure, ambiguous script to produce suspense and intensity...
...Zelman delivers a very tight performance throughout the play. His facial expressions show the ignorance, earnestness and anger of his character. Essentially the play revolves around Gus and his constant waffling on about where they are going, whether there's football match to be seen, etc. etc. With his sincere stupidity, Gus probes into many different issues, sometimes answering his own questions, other times getting short, petulant answers from...
...Zelman knows that Gus is not going to set the world on fire with his intellect, but he feels. For this reason, he plays him with the utmost earnestness. He never lets a furrowed brow clear into enlightenment, but instead remains serious about what he is saying. This makes the humor of Pinter's words even more pointed. Zelman never gives in to the joke, but rides the satiric and ironic tone of his monologues until the horror and pain of them forces the audience to laugh. It is nice to see someone who has camped...
...Mike to my friends" is "Of whom you have many, I'm sure." Poreba delivers such loaded lines with the perfect mix of sweetness and slyness, and men, including Connor, cannot help but fall helpless before her. While Tracy's relationship with her exhusband C.K. Dexter haven (Aaron Zelman) seems a bit too acidic at times, Tracy eventually proves to be nowhere near unbreakable, and Poreba vacillates admirably between the woman who tells her ex-husband to his face that she never loved him and who also melts at the thought of selling their mutual prize boat, the True Love...
There's Pompey's conservative sister, Electra publicans (Aaron R. Zelman '95), and her Yale-educated slave Lucinda Lipps (J.P. Anderson '95). (She's Yale-educated, and she's a slave Get it?) They scheme to get Electra's airheaded daughter, Caesonia Phase (Adam D. Feldman '95) interested in the would be successor to the Roman throne, nerdy Nero Sited (Thomas F. Giordano...