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...Surrealist qualities of the ambitious play—put up this weekend in the Adams House Pool Theater, written and produced by Jessica S. Benjamin ’07 and directed by Dipika Guha—seemed almost unquestionable. The dialogue, the discontinuities, and the play’s fundamental indifference to narrative all pointed to the same Surrealist conclusion: logic was not welcome here...
...point for the company. “In order to make Hyperion a really great organization, something totally different from any student organization here, we want to bring in professionals to work with the undergraduate actors, to speak to and mentor,” says Fredricks. As a start, Benjamin Evett, Artistic Director of the Actor’s Shakespeare Project, will direct “Romeo and Juliet,” which opens at the end of April in the outdoor Kirkland and Adams House courtyards, a setting that harkens back to the outdoor roots of the company...
...Secret Lives of Umbrellas” has nothing to do with umbrellas. Nor does it deal with secret lives either. But the absurdist qualities of this original play by Jessica S. Benjamin ’07 were what caught the attention of director Dipika Guha during a read-through of the script in their playwriting class. Before last semester, Benjamin had never written or produced a play, and her only experience as an actor was in a sixth grade production of “Hamlet.” But when assigned to write a play as a final project...
...Produced by Benjamin M. Poppel ’09 and Christine K.L. Bendorf ’10, “Pterodactyls”—directed by Allison B. Kline ’09—runs through March 18 at the Loeb Ex. The play, written by Nicky Silver, focuses on a wildly dysfunctional family comprised of the borderline psychotic Emma (Lara C.A. Markstein ’10), who remembers nothing about her past due to possibly-justified repression; her HIV-positive, embittered, and somewhat vengeful brother, Todd (Michael R. Wolfe ’09); and their parents...
...nationals and the other seniors are as well.”The men’s foil competition will display senior Enoch Woodhouse and sophomore Kai Itameri-Kinter. Woodhouse makes the fourth senior qualifier.The epee squad was in unfamiliar territory, fencing without the 2006 epee national champion, junior Benjamin Ungar, absent for a World Cup event.Although last year Ungar could have petitioned for a bye in regionals and a spot for nationals, rule changes dictate that his decision to fence internationally means he will not be headed to Madison, N.J., in two weeks.“After last year, when...