Word: roiff
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Michael S. Roiff '01, newly-elected club coordinator, also expressed his enthusiasm...
...very excited to be a part of the future of HRDC. It is time for Harvard theater to really turn the corner and become more of a force on campus," Roiff said...
...COMPLEAT WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) Directed by Michael Roiff Produced by Benjamin Forkner and Jessica Shapiro October 22-24 Loeb Experimental Theater...
...bizarrely goofy comedy of the production becomes all the more surreal in contrast with the newly straight-faced drama, providing some startlingly memorable moments: Kirk Hanson '99 as the apothecary Cerimon, hamming it up as he restores the drowned queen Thaisa to life ("She's ALIIIIVE!"); Michael Roiff '01 as the whorehouse Bawd, camping it up in a drag performance so broad it threatens to overwhelm everyone else on stage; and, of course, the constantly intrusive pirates, who are always guaranteed to provoke a laugh...
...standout performances do emerge. Roiff's comic ability, whether manifested as a fisherman's deadpan pragmatism or as the mesmerizingly over-the-top camp of the bawdy-house, continually brightens the stage. And Kate Taylor '00, who for the first half has nothing to do but to stand on stage as Antiochus's Daughter and crumple her face in disdain, emerges unexpectedly in the second half as a coldly terrifying Dionyza, the evil queen of Tarsus who plots the murder of our heroine Marina. (Taylor's final appearance, as the goddess Diana in an extraordinary strip tease scene, was equally...