Word: keshishian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others tend to the more eccentric and esotericin their quest for academic glory. Alek Keshishian'86, an Adams House resident, was one suchbuck-with-traditionster. He fulfilled the honorsrequirement for his special concentration(Literature and Film: Theory and Practice) byadapting Emily Bronte's classic novel of love goneawry Wuthering Heights for the stage...
...result, Wuthering Heights: A PopMyth, opened on the Loeb Mainstage earlierthis spring to popular, if not critical, success.But Keshishian was graded solely for his script,the actual adaptation, not for the production orits success. So his grade was not determined bythe box office take, nor by the number of kindwords New York Times drama critic FrankRich '71 might have had for the show...
...music takes over, Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Sting and Madonna help to steal the show. However, the sets don't match the fullness of their music. While some of Keshishian's visual innovations are fun, too many of the numbers are performed against the starkness of a white backdrop...
...KESHISHIAN'S STAGING strategy is, in some sense, the opposite of television or film--where the performer wanders against elaborate scenery and looks soulfully into the camera, forced to imagine his audience. On the sound stage, the performers do the work and the audience is left to take it in at their leisure...
...jokes aren't stale. The production may not in the end break ground for a new genre. While Keshishian doesn't give us much Bronte, he gives a whole lot of Madonna to whistle on the way home...