Sitting cheerfully at his desk with an Israeli flag draped behind him, Adam Schwartzbaum '07, director of the Brandeis Players' production of Crossing Jerusalem, lamented many students' disengagement from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: "The opportunity is there for you.
As the lights dim in the Shapiro Theater, we meet Mrs. Slater (Catherine Wagner '09), a mentally unhinged widow operating a colorfully decorated laundromat with her skateboarder son Gene (Michael Carnow '07). On the morning of Gene's 21st birthday, Mrs. Slater decides to send her son on a mission to avenge the death of his father, who was mysteriously murdered in the Pocono Mountains.
In a dilapidated and decaying diner, frail figures shuffle their skinny frames across the floor. Staring emptily at one another with eyes like black pools, they suddenly lash out at one other in fits of primal anger.
With last semester's Voices of Palestine exhibit-and the controversy that followed its removal by administrators-still fresh in the minds of its audience, Spingold's Merrick Theater seemed draped under an uncomfortable cloud this weekend, when the Free Play Theatre Cooperative presented The Black Eyed.
When you go home today, turn on your television and breathe in the countless dramas, tragedies and mysteries of our televisual culture.
Living in an academic bubble like Brandeis, it's often easy to forget to look at the outside world and see just how little things have changed.
A foreboding atmosphere permeated the minds of theater-goers this weekend as the goat, whose ominous silhouette has borne down on campus for weeks, to ok the stage to answer, once and for all, just who Sylvia was.
An uncertain crowd of first-years slowly shuffled into The Stein Thursday night for a night of music, poetry, and of course, more free tchotchkes than they could carry.
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