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...From there, the plot thickens, as Ochs becomes smitten with the disguised Octavian, who falls in love with Sophie von Faninal, who is promised to Ochs. Each of the three acts is packed with deception and bittersweet moments between Octavian, the Marschallin and Sophie...
...Rounding out the picture is Tommy (Roy A. Kimmey ’09), an impoverished orphan raised by nuns (and, in a somewhat prescient plot point for a play more than a decade old, molested by priests), Tommy, who works as a waiter, gets engaged to Emma after knowing her for three weeks. Grace hires him, complete with skirt and apron, to replace an absent maid—both in order to help him out financially and to get to know him better. Unfortunately for Emma, he becomes more enamored of Todd, his uniform, and his role as a maid...
...plot of “Pterodactyls” essentially results from the complete breakdown that occurs when these characters are all put together. Most wind up dead, and all wind up destroyed—and just to remind you, this is a comedy. Kline does an admirable job of keeping the pace snappy enough that there’s barely enough time for the shock of a given moment to register before the action has moved on. At the same time, Kline deftly slows down the action at the end for the more dramatic, but still unflinching, final scenes...
...Todd unearths in the yard and assembles in the house, where it functions as a ten-foot-tall metaphor for death and decay that literally stares everyone in the face. It is present in various stages of completion throughout the play, adding a level of surreality—albeit plot-mandated surreality—to an otherwise fairly straightforward set. The other notable aspect of the set, which was designed by Courtney E. Thompson ’09 and suggests an apartment with a few pieces of furniture, is an abstract hanging in the back like fragmented rock, a touch...
...than the average land-dweller would think. “Islander,” writer-director Ian McCrudden’s latest project, chronicles the life of a lobster fisherman learning to accept the consequences of an act which tears his life apart. Although the film’s plot lacks narrative drive, the strong sense of place, quirky subject material, and solid acting carries the film from a dramatic start to a heartwarming finish. Eben Cole, a lifelong fisherman on a small island off the coast of Maine, loses his friends, family, and lifestyle when an accident...