Word: complexity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...that the flesh-and-blood cast and crew of the Asian American Association's new production of Yew's play, directed by Jaynie Chen '02, can so effortlessly embody and ultimately transcend these issues is something truly amazing. A Language of Their Own, for all of the questions its complex issues raise, is essentially a very simple and very romantic play. The lack of dry eyes in the house at the end of this production should be considered only one indication of its compelling emotional effectiveness...
...meet Ming (Andrew Han '01) and Oscar (Gautham Bhan '02), a gay Asian twenty-something couple, just as they are breaking up from an intense four-year relationship. In the complex dialogue of the first act, which alternates between testimonial-like projections to the audience and their more private interchanges, the two men reminisce over the struggles and the happy times they shared together. Their interactions become strained, less frequent and even more wistful in the second act as they attempt to rebuild their lives with new partners. The tense relations between Ming and Robert (Jeremy Blocker '03), an ingenuous...
What is innovative about McDonagh's play is the psychological intensity of his characters and their complex relationship to their squalid surroundings. And fortunately for the Sugan Theater's production, Engels clearly understands the significance of these two aspects. The interactions of Mag and Maureen are given vital importance. The mother and daughter face off like two ferrets in a small cage; behind their petty tauntings and quick-paced reportage of insults, one can see how intent each woman is on destroying the other. Susan Zeeman Roger's set-dirty and sparsely furnished, with a rain machine adding a backdrop...
...Offensive Coordinator Jay] Mills called me in the summer and told me I should start learning the offense, which is pretty complex," Morris said. "That was one sign that told me I was going to get a shot, that they would need me to play...
...very good with computers. As a person who knows her way around a computer, I find this very complex," she says...