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...devoted aunt cast a perspectivally crucial light of prim conventional opinion on the confines of Hedda’s twisted world; her performance was especially noteworthy for the anguish in her face when she turned away from the other characters and showed her frustration to the audience alone. Jojo Karlin as Berta the maid showed, as indeed all the actors showed, an admirably unwavering intensity in her performance and a self-confident dedication to her character...
...then dragged through the mud several times. The result is suitably strange, but also a little baffling; why would the aristocratic and starchy Lords marry women who look like mentally disturbed paupers? It’s even stranger when you consider that Iolanthe and the Fairy Queen (Johanna S. Karlin ’05) are dressed according to more conventional notions of fairy attire—blue robes for Iolanthe and an impossibly billowing gown for the Queen...
Fortunately, the acting and singing pull the production through. Though a few cast members could work on their projection, and the lyrics become muddied when the male and female choruses sing simultaneously, the words are surprisingly comprehensible for a fast-paced Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. The acting is excellent. Karlin, as the Fairy Queen, alternates between Queen-of-Hearts-like condemning her subjects to “DEATH!” for courting mortals and shamelessly swooning over the mortal Private Willis (Marcus L. Wang ’04), who was passably but inexplicably portrayed as an American. Spitzer...
...Learning From Performers program is useful and important to those continuing in the arts, which are somewhat neglected here,” said Johanna S. “Jo Jo” Karlin ’05, a board member of the Harvard Radcliffe Drama Club. “We don’t have faculty that can teach you what these people...
...whole production is held together by the glue of the cast and their honest and straight-forward portrayals. The characters are able to tell their stories convincingly, and with a vulnerability and immediacy that makes us listen. Jojo S. Karlin ’05, as the leader of the storytellers, commands yet does well to avoid sentimentality, as do the rest of her castmates. Lipez merits mention as well for her unapologetic chracterization that captivates the audience from the start...