Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thursday and Sunday there's one show per night, at 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday there are shows at 8 and 10 p.m. Shows run a little longer than an hour-and-a-half--the opening act runs thirty minutes, and the main act is an hour. One thing to remember: the doors are locked an hour into the show, so get there early if you want...
Passim's price is perhaps its only bad point. The cover charge ranges from $3 to $4.50, depending on the act. You came to Boston for cultural diversity, but didn't expect to pay for it, eh? Well, if you can't swing it, save up or go Dutch. Where else can you get a first-rate concert for under $5 and a front-row seat besides? Passim is definitely one of those places that make Cambridge better than New Haven...
...make the mistake of thinking students who did not participate in the boycott are unconcerned with the issues involved here. To be sure, Harvard must act correctly, but Harvard must act. --Richard Leman '80 Michael Pettersen '80 John Park...
...performers of these parts are to convince us of the trancendence of their bond, they must use the one tool Shakespeare gives them--his poetry. Its power is extraordinary, as when it switches from the prevalent formal diction to simple, direct monosyllables in the Act II meeting between the two lovers--so straightforward that its language has become a model for greeting cards and sentimental wallposters. Shakespeare never lets us doubt that the love of Romeo and Juliet is the offspring not of their hearts but of their dreams, their words...
Gaughan is little better, though she has moments of more composure on stage. She seems to be trying to act out a genuinely 13-year-old Juliet, but like Hughes she lacks essential vocal control. She tries to press her small voice to impassioned heights, and the result is an embarrassing sound somewhere between a whine and a scream. And at heated moments, she has a habit of trying to spout an entire line of pentameter verse in one breath...