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...they did not commit, only to be released years, even decades, later—after their lives have already been irreparably damaged by their time in prison.“The Exonerated,” which has garnered various awards since its premiere in 2002, will be performed by BlackCAST in the Adams Pool Theatre through Sunday. Co-directed by Renee Michelle Ragin ’10 and Jenne B. Ayers ’10, “The Exonerated” explores real, personal stories. “This play is less about the death penalty and more about...
...wide-eyed prospective students, this was the first glimpse of Harvard’s student life, while other, more seasoned students were well prepared for the onslaught of provocative images Eleganza habitually provides.In past years, the student-run fashion show and facet of Harvard Black Community and Student Theater (BlackCAST) has received criticism for this problematic portrayal of black sexuality. Yet, organizers of Eleganza 2009 refuse to be hindered by what they claim to be simple misunderstandings. Instead, Eleganza has decided to tackle even more sensitive and poignant issues. This year, the show will branch out in an attempt...
...Recently, there has been much work to make theater here more diverse and more inclusive. BlackCAST, for instance, made a point of staging a gender-neutral and color-blind production this past fall. Hopefully, with the arrival of a new dramatic arts concentration and graduate school, and with more theater courses offered, formal training for more people will be more available and accessible...
...don’t get any supper,” Sheriff Hartman intones in the first act of BlackCAST’s “The Front Page,” beginning a night full of power plays and deception. Though the play was written in the 1920s, BlackCAST set its production in a Chicago newsroom from the 1950s, a time in which women and blacks were starting to infiltrate a predominantly white male workforce. “The Front Page,” which was present last weekend in the Aggasiz Theatre, relies on a single set: a fictional...
...aren’t going to get much stage time. It’s an unfortunate trend throughout Western theater: typecasting often places women into roles as either sexualized damsels in distress or desexualized comed relief, while black characters are often marginalized altogether. To offset these outdated limitations, BlackCast has reworked the script’s basic structure and implemented gender- and race-blind casting. “Too often directors are too strict in their interpretation of the play,” Coles says. “If it is set in Victorian England, the play would...