Word: zimmett
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...came to last semester's Common Casting, only to support a friend, and I saw that they were auditioning undergraduates for a professional piece at the ART," Zimmett says of the first time she heard about "Peter Pan and Wendy...
...small scale, the dream of discovery slowly came true this fall for Nora H. Zimmett '00. Zimmett, a Mather House resident, recently appeared as Tinkerbell in the American Repertory Theater (ART) production of "Peter Pan and Wendy," which ran from December 12 to January...
Ironically, Zimmett's discovery story began with utter rejection--Tinkerbell was the part that she initially decided not to try, and when she finally did audition, she was not called back...
...unredeemable villains of the play, Demitrius and Chiron, Kelly Keough and Chuck O'Toole '97 are costumed and made up to resemble a cross between macabre spirits and S&M partygoers--an image reinforced, perhaps overdone, by slinking movements and exaggerated gestures. As their victim, Lavinia, Zimmett grows more like them in her thirst for revenge--which she manages to convey without uttering a word. Interestingly, even in the beginning, Zimmett makes it clear that Lavinia isn't quite the paragon of innocence and virtue we might expect: there's an amusing non-verbal interplay between her and Tamora...
Make no mistake, however: this is the classic Shakespearean text, delivered with Elizabethan gusto. As You Like It, remarkable even among Shakespeare's comedies for its sheer number of characters, is staged by such intelligent and versatile actors that even the minor roles shine. Nora Zimmett '00 gives a powerful and richly textured performance as Rosalind, the heroine around whom the rest of the play revolves. It's a tremendous responsibility which she handles with grace, strength and wit. Ryan McKittrick, as her romantic counterpart Orlando, gives his character all the charming hot-headedness and lovelorn sincerity required...