Word: videt
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Despite her high school involvement in theater, music, and dance, Catherine “Calla” Videt ’08-’09 entered Harvard with intentions of becoming a physicist. Now with a substantial list of acting and directing credits to her name, not to mention the first student show on the Loeb Mainstage in 15 years, it might seem as though Videt—the 2009 recipient of the Luis Sudler Prize in the Arts—has traded her passion for physics for a new one. But this is hardly the case. While...
...hard to tell where one story ends and another begins, but that’s the point. Videt has a kind of wide-eyed sensibility that sees the world harmonizing with itself at every turn, and the intuitive logic that grounds her thinking is what makes “The Space Between” go. Early on in the first act, two characters discuss quarks, elementary particles born without mass; just like Adam and Eve, one says, “born without...
...Working in the vague zones where reality, fantasy, and myth overlap, Videt sometimes has trouble writing real people, but with Kulz and Renaud the emotions are tangible and down-to-earth. Things get cheesy sometimes—“This is what it means to love an artist!” is one of Eve’s less successful lines—but Videt is usually better at bodies than words. There is a moment, during an argument, when Renaud throws herself back on a bed before slowly curling in on herself. The gesture, which mixes irritation, helplessness...
...Heaven abolished.”The show doesn’t so much end as dissolve, which is meant as praise. Too often artists use History to de-fang the past—think “Schindler’s List”—but Videt finds resonance in events which remain indeterminate, unknown, and unredeemed. The closing sequence is a magical, literally incandescent experience...
...show should open on pre-frosh weekend. With its sincerity and intellectual openness, the show reminded me of those late night dorm conversations that everyone goes through freshman year, when the world seems on the verge of giving up all its secrets. Unlike a stoned freshman, however, Calla Videt knows what she’s talking about. She has real ideas about how people and history work together, and while they’re sometimes fuzzy, they can’t be easily dismissed; I’ve decided to see “The Space Between” again...