Word: prelapsarianov
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...oriented toward talk, “Slavs!” seems like a strange choice to interpret in American Sign Language (ASL). For example, when Janelle Mills, a faculty assistant at Harvard Business School, delivered a stirring monologue on the problems of the Soviet Union as activist Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov, her stirring performance was almost completely based in her voice. The challenge of translating such a stirring spech into sign language was masterfully achieved by the show’s interpreters, who were actors in their own right, conveying the emotions and personalities of the characters with their body language...
While both Augustine and Siemens give excellent and highly amusing performances, Erik Amblad '98 quickly steals the scene as Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov, or, as he claims to be, "the world's oldest living Bolshevik." Although Amblad's monologue grows a bit monotonous after a while, he still brings the essence of Aleksii, and of all of Kushner's characters--knee-slapping irony and witticisms combined with genuine emotional depth--to life. He leaves the audience giggling uncontrollably with lines such as "You're practically bugging me," spoken to the closely-following and nearly-blind Serge; and "God is a Menshevik...
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