Word: genderization
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Overall the show lacks cohesiveness. Nothing unites the pieces besides the common gender and sexual orientation of the artists. And the difficulties incurred by the mode of presentation--the jarring switch from one set of slides to another--heighten this disjunctive impression. It is a shame that these compelling pieces must be viewed through the lens and with the timing of a slide projector...
...even though the bad guys won, the decision was valid. MCAD is not the place to fight gender discrimination by final clubs. The place to fight that discrimination is here at Harvard--through our own moral opposition to club practices...
Women's issues were unusually prominent in Harvard drama last semester. Several of the plays, like David Gammons's powerful SexGod and Jennifer Giering's uplifting A...My Name is Alice dealt expressly with feminism and other gender issues. Many more focused on broader concerns, or were less explicitly feminist, like Carl Fox's production of On the Verge or Beth Turner's production of Blue Window...
...women in this contemporary play have a complex relationship which contrasts sharply with the limited, hateful competition of The Stronger. The change in gender roles was revealed through the clothing, speech, and movement of the characters. Rasminsky says that she "intentionally cast the same actresses. It's much more powerful to see the same people acting in completely different ways." The women of the second play are now free to encounter each other on their own terms, to strengthen and support one another...
Despite the many successes of the women's movement, many problems remain. Harvard drama dealt with this darker side extensively in another double billing, SexGod, two plays written by Robert Coover. The second of these, A Theological position, was a deeply disturbing presentation of sexuality and gender that many people saw as brutal and misogynist...