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...perhaps to demonstrate Harvard's solidarity with the urban proletariat, students could brandish semi-automatic firearms. We hear that these devices require less instruction and are far more effective than bare knuckles...
...Orpheus Descending, the playwright attempts to lay bare the cancerous hatreds lurking beneath the veneer of Southern gentility...
...unchanging set for Look Back in Anger is a bare and squalid apartment, and designer Zach Sung utilizes his space will. He manages to convey a sense of depressing poverty yet entertain the eye. Angry news headlines pasted over the bed (such as "Trust No One" and "Expect To Be Disappointed") and ashtrays full of cigarette butts make the place look lived-in, while a perfectly dreadful late "50s color scheme renders the ugly interpersonal relations in the play all the uglier. And little touches like vinyl-covered kitchen chairs and a screen behind which Jimmy can be seen playing...
...erecting the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex he mysteriously digs up in the back yard of the family mansion. The skeleton becomes a symbol of death and extinction, its reconstruction paralleling the demise of the family until in the final scene its imposing silhouette is cast against the bone-bare walls of the abandoned estate...
Hubris -- a kind of convulsive, ambitious pride -- was the tragic flaw in many a Greek hero, but it is life's blood to theater people. What else gives them the courage to put epic dreams on a bare stage, to evoke ancient empires with only words and a few props? Arrogance is the mother of theatrical invention, and the spur to Douglas C. Wager's new production of Derek Walcott's The Odyssey at the Arena Stage in Washington...