Take advantage of student theater! The final performance of Harold Pinter’s Moonlight is tonight at 8 o’clock in the Lerner Black Box. Go and be literary!
Harold Pinter’s Moonlight is in no way the typical drama performed by eager undergraduates and Sarah Wansely’s choice to take on this work reflects a certain courage and confidence both in her own talents and that of her cast and crew.
Pinter is famous for word play and subtext and Moonlight is no exception. The script challenges the actors cast to grapple with big emotions and big fears without their usual emotive volume. Here, Wansely offers an almost all too real look at familial relations, intimacy and the responsibilities they respectively entail.
The action of the play surrounds the declining physical health and mental complacency of Andy (Thomas Anawalt), the play’s protagonist and patriarch. Bedridden, he delivers surly rants and pompous homilies to any audience he can muster, usually his disinterested wife, Bel (Maura Mcnamara). While Anawalt booms with both repressed and irreverent rhetoric, McNamara sings her lines sarcastically and returns his jabs with her own bittersweet venom.
@Real Review This isn’t a review… it sounds more like a book report. …What did you think of the direction and the actors?!?!?!
…Here’s my review of the play: GREAT JOB!! Bravo to the actors and to the director! I liked the way that the whole set was black and white besides the stair. I thought the performance by “Ralph” was the most professional. The music was perfect for setting the scene, it really made me feel nervous. The script was quite amusing and the actors did well to bring out the humor in them. Some parts seemed a little over-dramatic, and I thought some of the character depth was difficult to discern. I didn’t realize the daughter was dead until I looked it up afterwards, but other than that.. well done.
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@Real Review This isn’t a review… it sounds more like a book report. …What did you think of the direction and the actors?!?!?!
…Here’s my review of the play: GREAT JOB!! Bravo to the actors and to the director! I liked the way that the whole set was black and white besides the stair. I thought the performance by “Ralph” was the most professional. The music was perfect for setting the scene, it really made me feel nervous. The script was quite amusing and the actors did well to bring out the humor in them. Some parts seemed a little over-dramatic, and I thought some of the character depth was difficult to discern. I didn’t realize the daughter was dead until I looked it up afterwards, but other than that.. well done.