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...Ohio State Murders, one of the most famous works by acclaimed playwright and Harvard visiting professor Adrienne Kennedy, is ostensibly a play about violence. "I was asked to talk about the bloody imagery in my work," says Denise Nicholas at the start of the performance, playing a famous writer returning to give a lecture at her alma mater. "Bloodied heads, severed limbs, dead father, dead Nazis, dying Jesus." But those audience members looking for a shocking array of violence and defacement, a visual testament to the horrors of American racism which the play so brilliantly confronts, will have to look...
...score that's downright chilling in its simple beauty. (Kudos to John Ambrosone, Viola Mackenthun and Christopher Walker for their respective designs.) Underneath the surface, however, this enrapturing meditation on emptiness is really a study of absence. Forced absence. The only books on stage lie on the desk of Professor Robert Hampshire, Suzanne's teacher and lover at Ohio State. In scenes that should be crowded-a classroom, a movie screening-the only characters on stage are those directly mentioned in Alexanders' lecture. And in place of the constant snowfall called for in Kennedy's script there is only Molly...
...white students is but a series of near-empty classrooms for its socially estranged black students, played with a heart-breaking mix of innocence, enthusiasm and indignation by Malinda Walford and Kibi Anderson. Moreover, a world of teachers dispensing knowledge and guidance has been reduced to a single white professor who is more interested in keeping knowledge from his black students than sharing it with them. The characters in Kennedy's play-intelligent and capable African-Americans trying to climb a ladder towards success specifically designed to keep them down-live in a world apart. A stark, empty, isolated world...
...Higgins Professor of Chemistry Richard H. Holm says that it is essential that students attend lecture in order to preserve the character of the class...
Mallinckrodt Professor of Biology Fakhri A. Bazzaz says that whether students come or not, he always puts on his best performance...