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Fall Theater Preview

Never Swim Alone

October 12 to 14

by Daniel McIvor

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directed by Jordan Berkow '03

produced by Catherine Buchanan '03

Loeb Experimental Theater

In an effort to recruit more student theatergoers, Never Swim Alone presents to Harvard a quick, hour-long and free performance with racy humor embedded in a fast-paced verbal joust. Two men, Frank and Bill, argue about everything from the size of their homes to the quality of their lives to the size of their...you get the idea. Beneath the humor lie subtle references to repressed memories and undertones of violence. In this verbal boxing match, the referee becomes a woman killed in a drowning accident while racing with the men, who as young boys were desperately trying to impress her. The play centers around their attempts at self-validation and redemption from this one horrible day. Thus, this play is a blitzkrieg of strong emotions cloaked with jokes. The small audience size (only 50 seats per performance) may deter some attendance, but it leaves one to imagine how the Loeb-Ex might be arranged with so much more playing space. Similarly, theater in an hour can be a horrible or fantastic experience, but humor can be a cure-all.

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