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Harvard’s Athena Theater Company will diverge from one theatrical precedent to reclaim another when it performs Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice with an all-female cast at the Agassiz Theater this weekend. The production of Shakespeare’s notoriously perplexing play will parallel a 1909 version by the Idler Club, nascent Radcliffe’s first student organization...
...centerpiece of the exhibit is a black-and-white photograph of the 1909 Merchant of Venice cast that ordinarily hangs in the hallways outside the Agassiz Theater. An Athena recreation of the photo, featuring the same characters in the same positions, will appear beside it and eventually, Fawcett hopes, join the original in the annals of Harvard-Radcliffe history...
...professional director, and assisted by a guest artist actor, the class of ’06 is sure to relay the pertinent themes of this centuries-old comedy. The play will be performed Thursday night, Friday, and Saturday, Oct. 24, 25 and 26 at 8:00 p.m. in the Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Yard. Tickets are for sale at the Holyoke Box Office for $10 and $5 for students...
...Harvard faces an impending performing arts space crunch with the loss of Radcliffe's Agassiz Theater in 2006 and the uncertain future of the dilapidated Hasty Pudding building, which has been awaiting renovation by the College since it purchased the space...
...ticket proceeds in such spaces, like the Agassiz Theater or the Adams House Pool Theater, will go to HTAG, which will pay the show's bills and deposit profits into its own account...