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Nagy's play, which first premiered in London in 1995, takes place in Manhattan, on the East Side. The plot focuses around the disappearance of Sarah Casey (Adia Tucker '01), a travel agent who never travels, and on Elston Rupp's (Brendon DeMay '03) possible involvement with this disappearance. Sarah's mother (Dale Shuger '01) doesn't care about her, and her boyfriend (Shawn Snyder '03) doesn't understand...
Enter Elston Rupp. He wears a ridiculous looking red and black tuxedo; he knows Sarah's name, he talks about fate. None of this would be particularly remarkable except for the fact that Sarah left the bar with him and was never seen again. Elston mentions that he drowns people in bathtubs-he takes them home and keeps them for a few days to talk to them and then he kills them. We never find out if this was Sarah's fate or if she simply decided to disappear. The play instead focuses on the lives of these...
Brendon DeMay '03 as mysterious and disturbing Elston Rupp carried the show. Natalie (Raya Terry '04), his employer who honestly wants to be good to him, cannot because he makes her skin crawl. DeMay is good because his sincere stares, pointed yet innocent questions and lack of emotion do make your skin crawl. At the same time you want to see more of him-to find out what makes him tick. And it's not often that you want to see more of a character who is a short, creepy, lying, loser who may or may not be a serial...
Three of the seven Ivy League schools with permanent presidents have a leader who headed at least one university in the past. One example is George E. Rupp, former president of Rice and current president of Columbia...
...think there is loyalty to a particular place and there's also loyalty to a particular kind of place...to institutional mission or culture or a set of values," she said. "Rice and Columbia, of course, have enormous differences. There are also things that George Rupp very much believes in that are present in both places...