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...Senior spring marks the first semester Friedman has taken off from performing in an HRDC show. She has hardly taken a break, however—her credits this semester include performances in Edges, a collection of student-written songs; three plays for the Harvard Playwrights?? Festival; the Annual 24 Hour Plays Festival; and two student films...
Based on two upcoming festivals in the Boston area, breaking down conventional barriers is the new “it” thing to do in the performance art world. The 2nd Annual Harvard Playwrights?? Festival and the 1st Annual Boston-wide Emerging America performance festival have this goal in mind as they prepare for large Spring celebrations and collaborations. The Playwrights?? Festival seeks to bridge gaps between different pre-professional aspects of undergraduate theater, while Emerging America hopes to build a connection between three professional companies and the Boston public...
...Harvard Playwrights?? Festival runs from Thursday, April 22, to Sunday, April 25, in the New College Theatre Studio, and features the original works of ten undergraduates performed as staged readings. For most of these students, the festival is the culmination of a semester of writing in Briggs-Copeland Lecturer Christine M. Evans’ Advanced Playwriting Course, offered through the English Department...
...newly revised cast list that includes five female and three male reporters. “Traditionally, there are fewer roles for women,” Coles says. “But it has been interesting reframing the play and changing the lines while still maintaining the integrity of the playwrights?? intent.” And in a broader sense, despite the script’s rather anachronistic language, the work still resonates with current issues that need no translation. “The play has a lot to say about race relations and the media...
...first play, “A Slice of Life,” began the festival with a sardonic awareness of tradition, which suited the budding playwrights?? efforts to forge their own, new dramatic conventions. In it, a father who wants to circumcise his son according to family ritual is prevented from doing so. In an ironic twist, the professional he hires botches...