Word: imafidon
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Opening to the purposefully discordant music played by cellist Sarah K. Howard ’07, the first play features four actors, Kris J. Bartkus ’08, Faith O. Imafidon ’08, Phil Redko, and C. Calla Videt ’08. Each gives a noteworthy performance, easily and impressively filling a range of roles, each playing a universally cold and cruelly detached doctor and a number of believable characters afflicted by disorders. They struggle with afflictions ranging from short-term memory loss and obsessive-compulsive disorder to Tourette’s syndrome and an inability...
Overall, their deeply emotional performances came to a fore two successive scenes—the first and second featuring Imafidon and Redko, respectively. In these particular scenes, Imafidon plays a patient who cannot move without exerting a great deal of effort, while Redko is afflicted by Tourette’s syndrom. Talking directly to the audience, Imafidon anguishes that “Everyday is a mental marathon,” and Redko laments that since there is no place in the world from him, he must create...