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...like George W. Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy."... Sweet Charity, that frothy cream puff of a musical, goes up next weekend in the Loeb against the anything but frothy Kiss of the Spider Woman in the Agassiz. Verrry interesting. I wonder which will get more buzz?... Said creepy director Vincent Gallo of his Buffalo 66 star Christina Ricci, "She was okay when she wasn't drunk on the set. I think she's an alcoholic-either that or she was on cough syrup the whole time...
...notice anything unusual about the Agassiz stage this weekend, it could be ladders running from the stage to the balcony, a giant projection screen/backdrop, the presence of a new wall or the 600 lb. doric column lovingly known to the cast and crew of Timon of Athens...
...love, sex, history and entropy that revolves around discussions of Fermat's Last Theorem, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, Byron's poetry and the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism in England. That Arcadia is not exactly an accessible work did not bother the audience in the Agassiz Theatre, however, who took the self-conscious intellectualism in stride and laughed along with Stoppard's absolutely breathtaking word- and idea-play...
Despite the over-eager report in last week's paper, Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, this year's incarnation of the Freshman Theater Project, actually opens this weekend in the Agassiz Theater. So if you were hungry for chaos theory, the squabbles of literary historians and Romantic theories of landscaping last weekend but just couldn't tear yourself away from that problem set, you're in luck...
More interested in reason than insanity? Then consider this year's Freshman Theater Project: Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, now playing in the Agassiz Theater. Chaos theory, the squabbles of literary historians and Romantic theories of landscaping-leave it to Stoppard to turn them all into a play both funny and moving...