Love blinds. Love wounds. Love keeps us going. The Dartmouth theater department’s production of Rajiv Joseph’s “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” directed by Nick O’Leary ’14, made these truths slowly, painfully evident this weekend in Moore Theater.
Jake Nevola ’14 began a trick by showing audience volunteers three cards, two red and one black, which he shuffled as he explained the three-card monte con game’s history. To ensure the volunteers understood the game, he showed them the cards again, only this time, all of them were black. When he flipped the cards over a third time, two were black and one was red. As the game progressed, it became obvious that nothing is as fair as one thinks.
Clifford Owens’s performance art piece “Anthology,” performed Tuesday night at the Hopkins Center, demanded audience members to forget faintness and fortitude of heart and embrace flexibility. The collection of performance art scores forced viewers to examine their perceptions of race, gender, sexuality and sexual assault.
In the basement of Rauner Special Collections Library, below the College’s archives, works photographic records specialist Patricia Cope, the gatekeeper of all historical photos. Cope provides students access to Dartmouth’s photographic records, thousands of images that present a visual history of the College. The records, which date back to 1938, were captured by College photographers Adrian Bouchard, Stuart Bratesman, Joseph Mehling and Eli Burakian. Images from after 2000 are available online, Cope said.