Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Plutarch relates how, during a 53 B.C. performance of the Bacchae, the victorious Parthian general Sillaces approached the stage, carrying the head of Crassus, and handed it to Jason of Tralles, the actor playing Agave: Jason went on, apparently without missing a beat, and the play ended smoothly, if messily...
...church members had planned their trip to Boston to include picketing at an event where television actor Ellen DeGeneres's mother was speaking and a trip to Provincetown, Mass. When they learned of Gore's visit, they added it to the agenda...
...shocked by Susannah Mandel's article about Macbeth. I saw it on opening night and returned on Saturday night to see it again. Mandel writes one of the worst reviews I have ever read. It is as if she has a personal vendetta against Pablo Colapinto '00, the actor playing Macbeth. She spends the entire article laying into him. She writes: "Speaking in a tone of mingled peevishness and self-pity, he proceeds to recite Macbeth's lines as though he's whining at Fate for giving him such a hard time...
...quite disturbing to read Susannah R. Mandel's review of the Loeb Mainstage production of Macbeth in your Oct. 24 Arts section. The offensive review was not a critique, but rather an out-right attack on Macbeth's lead actor, Pablo Colapinto '00. I was an audience member on opening night and left the theater having enjoyed a fine production that pulled together amazingly well in the four short weeks since it was cast. Opinion on the specific interpretation, which Mandel calls everything from "bizarre" to "whiny," was indeed ranging, but it would be highly unfair to say that anyone...
...Speeches from Chinese dissident Harry Wu, actor Richard Gere, former political prisoner Wang Xi Zhe and others...