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...shot. Can one be a shot? It was one of [Alan Bennett??s] pieces from the mid-90s for British television...I played a park attendant with pedophilic tendencies. It was a really powerful piece...
...black box theater was both imaginative and practical, transforming the small floor space into a believable hospital.Unlike the first two plays, the second half of the production consisted of two one-man performances—Chekhov’s “Swan Song” and Bennett??s “Playing Sandwiches.”In the Johnson directed “Swan Song,” Jesse W. Barron ’08 played the role of Wasill Svletlovldoff, an actor past his prime who wallows in alcohol and laments his wasted life. Barron handled...
...Martin down for genuine reasons—if she were ardently against hunting, or if she held a vendetta against other members of the Commission—might be one thing, but to reject her without even holding a fair hearing reeks of fusty politics. And whether or not Bennett??s opposition to holding a fair vote stems from Martin’s status as a mother or status as a conservationist, his refusal should be worrisome, at the least.As if to nail the coffin shut on this sorry episode, the Arizona media has paid slim attention...
...Although the play is primarily a comedy, Bennett??s lines require an audience of literati. In just under three hours, spectators will hear about Orwell’s social theory, Wittgenstein’s philosophy, a handful of Auden, the unavoidable Shakespeare, and others. All of this fits in the seemingly unavoidable duel between two styles of teaching set up by Bennett...
...History Boys” does not have one theme; its profundity lies in dealing with an eclectic but complimentary variety of issues, all of which relate to elite education. Bennett??s play addresses homosexuality, and literature’s raison d’ être; it analyzes legacies, but also the understandability of the Holocaust; it tries to define money’s role in education while addressing gender neutrality and manliness...