Alex Dillon ‘13 “It’s strange to look back on a place and realize that it more than anywhere made you who you are. Even stranger when core memories involve proudly showing off how odd and haphazard things were. Lovell was absolutely that place for me. I felt such ownership over that building; its gross nooks and odd-smelling crannies, often full of props or paint or some strange collection of things I would be called upon to find at least once, but probably many times. Lovell showed me everything that a theater is (homey, idiosyncratic, always a little more flexible than you thought it could be) and everything it doesn’t need to be (clean, purpose-built, sensible). It taught me to love and take care of something not because it was perfect but because it was mine.”
Aisha Nabali ‘23 “From the boisterous debates in the Mac Lab to mid-rehearsal rooftop excursions, Lovell has been bustling with life. I’ve come to love every chip and dent in the stage, every old layer of paint hidden by the new, every carving on the wall. Walking down the hallowed halls of Lovell Hall and seeing all the posters of shows past, I think about the years and years of love that have been poured into this building and all the memories made.”
Evan DeCarlo ‘12 “Now, a decade removed from high school, I can remember still even the strange little details— the staircase leading out to the parking lot, the claustrophobic prop room squirreled away un- derground, a roaming mannequin dummy we had nicknamed Captain Ugly, the awkward vestibule before the video lab, the tempting hallway piano, how many posters filled with faces receding, foot by foot of yellowish wall, into our collective theatrical past.”
The cast of the 1985 production of Our Town.
Evan DeCarlo ’12 and fellow cast members in the 2012 production of The Servant of Two Masters.
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