Word: athenas
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...Laura P. Perry ’04, director of the Athena production, does not consider Shakespeare’s portrayal of the Jewish moneylender Shylock as a heartless businessman to be anti-Semitic. If so, she said, the play is equally anti-Christian, for its Christian characters appear equally cruel and far more deceitful...
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...
...exhibit in Radcliffe’s Baker Room, “Playing Their Part: The Idler Club and the History of Women’s Theater at Harvard and Radcliffe,” will accompany each of the show’s five performances. Cast member and Athena co-founder Julia H. Fawcett ’04 prepared the exhibit after researching the Idler Club on a Carol Pforzheimer Grant last summer...
...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...
...fishing industries are the main sources of livelihood for Shetlanders. Willie Irvine, 50, comes from a long line of fishermen. The father of five is part-owner of Athena, a 72-ft. seine-netter, the only one of its kind in Whalsay. Willie lovingly says of his boat, "We've been together 28 years." Willie and the four-man crew catch cod, haddock and whiting. In good weather he's at sea five days a week and can catch...