Eleven months later, Barbaro hanged himself in his jail cell. Three people were killed, and 11 were injured.
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Barbaro randomly fired on people from third floor windows of a high school, onto a shopping center. Playwright Bonnie Culver loosely bases the play (which ran at Center Stage, NYC in 2005) on a shooting in Olean, N.Y., where she happened to be at the time. S niper is a psychological, often harrowing drama that examines the past - and state of mind - of a teenager who fatally shoots multiple citizens of his small town. The cast includes, from left, Violet Prete, David Smith, Luke Pascucci, Nemo Newman, Solomon Bergquist, and Kate Stewart. After (fictional) teenager Anthony Vaccaro (Dominic Dominguez, standing, center) commits a fatal mass shooting, he probes his relationships with people in his past. “SNIPER”: Performances are underway for “Sniper.” Presented by Theatre Intime and directed by Sabina Jafri ’24, the play runs through October 10 at the Hamilton Murray Theater. “I feel like an experiment,” she muses early in the story, though she senses that her experiences will be “important to the historian some day.” Nelson accentuates Eve’s self-confidence.
Twain immediately imbues Eve with a mixture of self-confidence and philosophical introspection. “Saturday - I am almost a day old,” she recites, gesturing expressively. She stands up, and - with spring in her step - moves toward center stage. Twain’s prose is divided among seven actors four actors share Eve’s lines, and three read for Adam.Īs Eve, Oriana Nelson opens the show. Allport keeps the pacing tight by avoiding pauses between monologues. However, there is enough movement to provide visual interest. An apple, placed in the center at the edge of the stage, is the only prop. Both the cast and the audience were masked.ĭirector Anna Allport reveals in a program note that she performed a monologue from the story in high school, and was enamored of the work’s “delightfulness and surprising complexity,” as well as Eve’s endless curiosity, headstrong spirit, and unshaken optimism.”īecause the presentation is a staged reading, the only production element is the lighting by Greyson Sapio. On October 10 Princeton University’s Theatre Intime presented a live, in-person staged reading of Eve’s Diary, at the Hamilton Murray Theater. It is a successor to Extracts from Adam’s Diary (1893). In 1906 Harper and Brothers published it as a book.
Twain’s story first appeared in the Christmas issue of Harper’s Bazaar, and subsequently in the anthology Their Husband’s Wives. First published in 1905, this anachronistic version of Genesis is strikingly relevant in its satire on conflicts in relationships between men and women, as well as its consideration of the search for one’s identity and purpose. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) writes from the title character’s point of view, adding intermittent comments from Adam. (Photo by Elliot Lee)Į ve’s Diary is a witty but poignant re-imagining of events in the Garden of Eden. Seated, from left, are Mel Hornyak, Jill Leung, Elliot Lee, Madeline Buswell, and Sheherzad Jamal.
Adam (Ally Wonski, standing left) and Eve (Oriana Nelson, standing right) meet. Directed by Anna Allport ’23, the show dramatizes Mark Twain’s retelling of the Creation story. “EVE’S DIARY”: Theatre Intime has staged a reading of “Eve’s Diary,” presented October 10 at the Hamilton Murray Theater.
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