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There is a theater crowd on every campus; they’re the students whose names you see over and over again on playbills, either under cast or production crew or both. The majority of the cast in BlackCAST’s production of “Fabulation” do not belong to this crowd. But I sure hope they join, because there are a couple of sensational actors in that show who I want to see over and over again...
Directed by Kristen D. Jones ’10 and assistant-directed by Andrew C. Coles ’09—both commendable first-time directors—and produced by Christian I.C. Strong ’09, “Fabulation” boasted an eight-member cast who adeptly handled the play’s 27 roles. The production, which ran April 12-14 in the Loeb Experimental Theater, had a few opening-night chips in its polish, but more than compensated with a fantastic script (by Lynn Notage) and great acting...
...entire cast, Sullivan showed that she was out to have fun, with the result that she was the crowd-pleaser of the production. Sullivan seamlessly morphed from one role into another, cracking her gum as Undine’s not-too-bright valley-girl assistant, then smiling sickeningly over her clipboard and talking in a nasal voice as the counselor of a drug rehabilitation group. Her performance as the belligerent hooker who shares Undine’s jail cell was unforgettably comic...
...supporting cast members, each of whom plays multiple roles, do better than Plum on the material. Marianna Bassham is a hoot as a Connecticut uber-mommy, and Horatio Sanz look-alike Larry Coen digs into the play’s absurdism, especially when he appears as Gandalf (yes, that Gandalf...
...influential novelist in the Spanish-speaking world, a writer mentioned in the same breath as Borges and García Márquez. Unlike the other demigods of the literary canon, though, Bolaño seems like a guy you could meet on the street, not a monument cast in bronze. This is the lifelong iconoclast who dropped out of school at 15, stole the books he read, attended poetry readings only to shout down those he disdained, and led an outlaw band of avant-garde poets. This is the life he idealizes in “The Savage Detectives...