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...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE risen from the grave to see the three-and-a-half hour production of his The Winter's Tale currently being mounted at the Agassiz Theatre, he probably would have suffered a massive heart attack after the first five minutes. But had Shakespeare survived the initial shock of director Paul Warner's very twentieth-century interpretation of his next to last play, the bard would have realized he was watching a very creative mind at work...
...money is the least important part of the prize. The most important part for a scientist is recognition among one's peers," Ernst Mayr, Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus, said yesterday...
...KNOW ANYTHING about politics or about acting but I do know a lot about students," says student playwright P.J. Kenney '85 about the inspiration for his new production, Common Knowledge, now playing at the Agassiz Theater...
...seeing the characters created from his encounters at the Union come to life on stage at the Agassiz was a year and a half long process for the Eliot House resident. After writing the play the summer after his freshman year, Kenney spent the fall of his sophomore year rewriting before applying to the Office for the Arts for a slot at the Agassiz for the following fall. Last summer the play went through a third draft with the fourth and final draft being hammered out between author director John Hawkins and actors at rehearsals this fall...
...serious playwright with serious ideas," says Myra Mayman, director of Office for the Arts, which named Kenney's play the Louis B. Mayer Memorial Production at the Agassiz. Mayman points out that the Agassiz has traditionally been user as forum for original plays including Eugene O'Neill's early works. "P.J. Kenney is in that great tradition," she adds...