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Every night at a pre-scheduled time, forlorn swains and pining maidens fill the Science Center basement to e-mail their loved ones at other colleges or back at home. Bathed in the unearthly glow of the monitor screens, they are oblivious to the furious click-clack of the keyboard as Internet connects them to their faraway, spiritual halves. Yet somehow, this mode of communication seems to lack a true personal touch, a romantic passion. Perhaps it is the constant, invasive hum of the terminals and the harsh florescent lights. Or the horde of computer hacker sitting in the other...
...play follows the ongoing correspondence of Melissa Gardner (Wendy Coleman) and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III (Justin Levitt). Through a series of letters, postcards and notes, a complex relationship unfolds, beginning in the second grade and continuing all the way through adulthood. Trading the Science Center basement for cozier Eliot House library, the play creates an intimate atmosphere with minimal props and preparation. In fact, the story requires little other than the dark wood-paneling and aristocratic leather armchairs of the library to conjure up the upper-crust backgrounds of the two characters...
...facts are as follows. On December 29, 1992, at 6:45 in the morning the building superintendent at Matthews Hall heard noises coming from the basement linen drop off room and was suspicious. The dorm was closed for Christmas vacation, there were no students in the building and no one was supposed to be in it at that hour...
...late November, the temperature outside hovered near zero, and six of us were sitting fully clothed in an unused basement bathhouse beneath a rundown hotel in central Russia. The water in the green-tiled pool had long ago turned an oily, opaque black, and from the cavernous banquet room directly above our heads rock music reverberated. Hardly an ideal venue for a business meeting, but there are few safe places to discuss the sale of 200 lbs. of stolen emeralds...
...only eccentricity has been his absolute devotion to routine. One egg, toast and coffee every morning at 8 a.m. in the court cafeteria with his clerks; a four-block walk around the building at lunchtime, along with a visit to the decrepit exercise room in the court's basement. On Saturday nights he and his wife listened to A Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor, who dubbed his fellow Minnesotan "the shy person's jurist...