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From Oct. 27 through Nov. 6, playwrights Kaling and Withers are serving up Matt & Ben, a snippy satire targeting the rise to ubiquity of the two Cantabrigians, in Winthrop House’s Junior Common Room. For $15 and $25 respectively, Harvard students and the metro Cambridge population will have the rare opportunity to witness a full professional production of an acclaimed Off Broadway work in their own town...
...Matt & Ben was inspired mostly out of poverty,” admits Kaling. “We wanted to work together but didn’t want to spend any money. We figured we could save a lot of time and expense by essentially ‘hiring’ ourselves to act in the play, direct it ourselves, and use our living room as rehearsal space...
...should be called ‘We have no money, and we’re miserable because we have no jobs or boyfriends,’” quips Kaling). They’ve been succeeded by a pair of native New Yorkers, Jennifer Morris (Matt) and Quincy Tyler Bernstine (Ben), who met while studying theater at the University of California, San Diego. Both were called back after auditioning and, miraculously, both were cast...
Morris was drawn to Matt & Ben because it had already established itself with audiences. “I had heard so much about it,” says Morris. “It was a big hit in New York, and it’s not very often you get to audition for the role of Matt Damon...
...BEING MATT...