Theater Reviews
‘Marisol’ innovatively portrays apocalyptic America, comments on class and homelessness
- Rosenbaum said, “Marisol offers an answer about how to live after what was viewed as the end of the world.”
- The play sends a meaningful message about taking control of one’s destiny and striving to make changes in the world. Marisol must choose between putting her faith in God or the angels as her world disintegrates before her very eyes.
- “Viewers will find it difficult to leave this unique production of “Marisol” without a newfound perspective on the world and daily life in general.”
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Theater Preview | Tufts actors aren’t afraid to get ‘Dirty’
- Rosenbaum praised the play’s intelligence and clarity of voice for not talking down to the audience but still entertaining along the way… Rosenbaum said firmly, “Nothing like this has been done here before.”
- Dirty Story” alternately shocks and soothes, then prompts laughs from the audience before they realize they’re laughing. The small but talented Tufts cast goes to town with Shanley’s archetype-exploiting writing, neither holding back their subtle jibes nor their violent seductions.
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Theater: Year in Review | Tufts theater in 2006-2007 reveals inspired creativity and talent
- “…while “Still Life,” directed by junior Ari Rosenbaum, examined the lives of three people in the aftermath of the Vietnam war.”
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Community Articles
Young Queer Peers program expands
- “I think it’s … about expanding our reach within the community and because it is a relatively new program, it’s going to be growing,” he said. “It’s now just starting to catch on where it hasn’t necessarily caught on before.”
- Specifically, Rosenbaum would like to see minority groups on campus show greater unity. “There isn’t much cross-pollination. On a wider scale, there needs to be more interaction between minority communities,” he said.
Rosenbaum believes Queer Peers should play a role in that process. “Part of our training is on how to deal with people with dual identities, like how to be black and gay, or Jewish and gay,” he said.
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