Jules Forsberg-Lary '12 praised in NY Times review

Jules Forsberg-Lary '12 was featured in a NY times review for her performance in “False Stars,” which was featured in the first Corkscrew Theater Festival. Here's a preview of the NY Times piece:

"The inaugural Corkscrew festival, which ended last weekend in the East Village, did its little bit to fill the FringeNYC void with five world-premiere shows and a reading series at the Paradise Factory, a space the fringe festival has used in recent years. The one play I saw, Ms. Casey’s “False Stars,” was very much in keeping with that independent, shoestring-budget spirit.

Directed by Jenny Reed and set in the academic enclave of Oxford, Miss., it’s a story of homecoming and coming out, of brilliant mentorship and bad fatherhood, of cutthroat competition for both love and professorship. It is, in other words, ambitious yet overstuffed to the point of unwieldiness.

Still, the production was packed with young talent, most notably Jules Forsberg-Lary as Peg, protégé of the brilliant neuroscientist whose illness has drawn a motley group together, and the charismatic Jonathan Iglesias as Victor, a loyal friend to the great man’s child. In the risk-taking venture that is summer festival-going, encountering talent you want to see more of is a worthy payoff..."

Read the full review on www.nytimes.com