Atalanta at the Fringe
Atalanta at the Fringe
New York, 1969. Sarina Lemonde is a news editor at the struggling Atalanta Post, living a quiet, respectable life, with no plans of changing that anytime soon. But, one ordinary night in February, it all goes upside-down: her wealthy, estranged mother sweeps back into her life, seeking to buy the newspaper; her closeted husband begins an ill-advised affair with a Post executive; and Sarina is unexpectedly installed as the first female president of the Atalanta Post.
“Men clad in plaid pants and women in jewel tones fill the scene: ‘Who’s who in the news?’ they ask. Costume designer Stephanie S. Brecq ’24 dove into the Pinterest world of 1960s fashion to outfit the cast. She describes Sarina’s mother Miriam Lamonde’s outfits as ‘high fashion, European but she’s like kind of fake so it’s brought to the nth degree.’”
— Sophia N. Downs, The Harvard Crimson
