Word: expectedly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Committee on House Life, the Deans and the Masters didn't expect this to happen," says Guhan Subramanian '91-92, chair of the Undergraduate Council. "Maybe we'll have to rethink the system...
...could not help but be confused in this cluttered landscape, so common in Shakespearean comedies. But what one might not expect are the quirks and modern permutations director Elijah Siegler gives the already zany Comedy of Errors...
That is just the kind of sentiment one might expect to find on talk radio, though perhaps not from the talk show host. Barry Champlain, played by Bill Brazell, is the impassioned and crusading host of "Nighttalk" who spews statements such as these in the studio set in the Mather House TV room...
...callers phone in with the amusing thoughts and opinions we would expect, a random sampling of the minds of the population which make a show like Champlain's popular. Yet amidst this humor are the troubles of modernity--racism, sexism, child abuse, rape, teen pregnancy, drugs, etc. While Bogosian's play is comic, its intention is in no way farcical. The problems of the culture exemplified in talk radio are of course very real, and the people treat seriously their calls and the opinions expressed in the show...
This is all well and good for most theater but not for an experiment. Such reviews are read in order to know what to expect at the threatre; experiments rely on challenging expectations. A review can only succeed in imposing a preconception, the reviewer's inevitably sketchy and subjective remarks, which can interfere with the audience's perceptions of the actual experience...