Word: salovaara
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...could be interpreted that way," says director Erik Salovaara '88, who is white...
...some directors, including Salovaara, have deliberately cast against expected physical types. When he directed Arthur Miller's After the Fall three years ago, Salovaara cast a Black woman in a role he says is traditionally associated with "Marilyn Monroe types...
...Salovaara, who last year supervised the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) Common Casting week--the process through which directors cast simultaneously all the plays on the HRDC semester production schedule--estimates that fewer than 10 percent of the actors who audition through Common Casting are Black...
...other hand, Salovaara treats his character, George Tesman, with appropriate zeal and with particular stress on the comedic. As Salovaara doen't take his character too seriously, his performance is one of the play's funniest...
...crux of Hedda Gabler's discontent, as we vaguely infer from the play's early scenes, has something to do with her recent marriage to the bookish George Tesman (Erik Salovaara). Hedda is not what you would call the Stepford wife type. She gains pleasure from slamming doors, playing loud piano mazurkas, and polishing gun barrels as opposed to silver flatware. As she so matter-of-factly puts it, "I have no talent for such things as responsibilities. I have a talent for only one thing in life--boring myself to death...