Word: kargman
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Sophie B. Kargman ’08 parallels Merenda’s ambition to study theater at Harvard, but adds an additional academic facet that she believes only Harvard can provide. Her major goal in coming to Cambridge rather than a conservatory is to craft a complex special concentration...
...Comprehensively-minded Kargman cites Anna Deveare-Smith, author of one-woman show Twilight: Los Angeles, as one of her major inspirations. Deveare-Smith successfully gets into the head of every character involved in the Rodney King beatings of 1992 through the study of sociology and psychology. “Harvard has an opportunity to bring in classes from literature, history, sociology and psychology, all of which will give me a much better grasp on being able to play truthfully the characters I imagine,” Kargman says...
While uncertain if she would pursue a dramatics arts concentration if it were offered, Kargman says the establishment of a degree-granting department would certainly help her accomplish her ambitious goals...
...Kargman says that her class with the A.R.T.’s Marcus Stern—“Dramatic Arts 18r. Advanced Acting: 20th-Century Texts” —is so much work that she decided to hold off acting in one of HRDC’s plays until the spring. With the actor’s expectation that his students come to class with only their best work, Kargman and her peers (whom she says are mostly seniors) have a considerable amount of studying...
Outside of reading the script and learning a text completely, a great actor will do an enormous amount of research for his or her character. In performing a piece from Tom Griffin’s A Boy Next Door, Kargman extensively researched the daily life of autistics, the emotional structure of autism and the scientific rationale of the disease...