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This said, what I find most disappointing about The Crimson's new arts section is that coverage of the arts at Harvard still consists almost exclusively of reviews. There are so many other ways in which arts can and are covered in newspapers other than The Crimson. Gili Bar-Hillel, visiting student from Tel-Aviv University
This may not sound like everyone's cup of tea, but it's to the credit of director Gili Bar-Hillel and Yerma's excellent cast that they have pulled it off remarkably well: Despite its essentially static structure, this drama of emotions remains spellbinding for its full two hours. The play's success must be credited in large part in to the startlingly beautiful and lucid performance of Lara Jirmanus '01 as Yerma. Jirmanus's Yerma retains our attention for the duration of the play; striking precisely the right balance between Yerma's haunting desires and the earthy reality...
Yerma is largely a women's play. Director Bar-Hillel says that she selected it for performance in part because she wanted to take advantage of the often under-utilized "pool of talented women at Harvard," and this she has succeeded in doing. The actresses in the play's supporting roles do not fade beside Jirmanus's splendid Yerma but instead complement her and each other, bringing a multitextured and vibrant life to the text's potentially flat and symbolic set of characters...
...sung elements, and frequent use of monologues framed explicitly in the meters of lyrical poetry, rather than prose. The music used in Spanish-language productions of the play is usually based on traditional Spanish folk tunes, but setting the English translation to those melodies would have been difficult. Instead, Bar-Hillel worked with John Baxindine '00, a concentrator in English and Music, to compose an entirely new score for the play...
...criticism of Israeli politics and mentality which is subtly embedded in the text, I feel justified in saying that the reviewer simply did not understand the play. I agree that The Day of the Dogs was not an easy play to stomach. It was not meant to be. --Gili Bar-Hillel, Translator and Director, The Day of the Dogs