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Lady Lazarus, Tooth and Nail

Are two recently completed projects with which I had varying degrees of involvement. Lady Lazarus is my fiancee's first website, which I designed and deployed last weekend (and I love hearing about CSS bugs!). Tooth and Nail is the play that Laura just finished directing at UC Berkeley. I designed the poster, which was supposed to have a David Hockney-esque feel. From one review:
"Tooth and Nail," a swirling, searing, sometimes seriocomic panorama of apartheid and its aftermath, ends its U.S. premiere this weekend at the Durham Studio Theater on the UC Berkeley campus.

Written in 1988 by South Africa's renowned anti-apartheid collective, the Junction Avenue Theater Company, the play looks at the precarious moment in history as one regime is dying and the new one cannot be born in the tumult of its passing.

Although the play was written well before the events in Iraq, the parallel cannot be overlooked.

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A cast of 17 student actors, along with large puppets created by Heather Crow, is directed by Laura Levin. Levin, currently completing her doctorate in performance studies at UC Berkeley, was also involved in the 1997 staging of "Tooth and Nail" in Montreal.

d00d, you're just too damn hip!

Posted by: joe on December 13, 2004 12:42 PM
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