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Acting

“Clara Wellons, a student in the Mailman School of Public Health who played the goat, offered some observations on her performance that show how much more audiences laugh when this experiential gap between the sick and the healthy is narrowed. Interpreting the goat character as a nursing home patient with late-stage dementia, Clara notes that her biggest laughs came when her character showed moments of increased self-awareness, something dementia patients do experience. It was almost as though, through the mysterious veil of illness, the “goat” was winking at the audience and saying, “It’s okay to laugh. I’m still here. There’s humor even here.” But the audience needed an assurance it wasn’t all unimaginable pain. This was still a relatable human being with a full range of emotions, including humor.”
– https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/2020/03/05/waiting-for-laughter-part-2-finding-empathy-for-pain-through-humor/

Singing

Boston Groupie News

“No one I know can go from a light Baby, You’re a Rich Man to scary powerful Search and Destroy like her.”
-http://www.bostongroupienews.com/News091514.html

“They start up the Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love – the sound is faithful to the record and then there is Clara’s voice. She has a full bodied voice with no affectations. The best part is its all rock; for instance – there is no blues influence at all. She’s pitch perfect all the time. She’s a real talent. In Ever Fallen In Love she is able to inject more emotion than Shelly and when she sings a line like “You disturb my natural emotions. You make me feel I’m dirt, And I’m hurt” you feel it like never before. Later she rips through Search and Destroy flailing about and delivering that diatribe with fire. Then she sings some Beatles with ease and then the Femme Fatale cover where she’s got that blasé flatness down too. The band has been rocking lively all night and Tony has been a standout on guitar and then singing Cheap Trick’s Surrender. They end with Caught in the Rain, an original. Catch a performance of this at Porchfest. This is a straight pop tune and way catchy. Now, I feel like I need to see a set of all originals. This is a produced video of the song Portrait of Wilson.Litehouse should be commanding more attention.”
-http://www.bostongroupienews.com/News062314.html

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TOP TEN Sexy darlings
-http://thenoise-boston.com/2013/12/2013-top-ten/

The Noise’s Big Shot of January 2014

-http://thenoise-boston.com/2014/01/the-big-shot-4/