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...comic proportions. To achieve that paradoxical effect of hilarity juxtaposed against a morbid backdrop, Albee utilized wordplay, black humor, and even slapstick to counter the mounting tension between the characters as the action progresses to its catastrophic climax. It was precisely this dichotomy that drew director Davida Fernandez-Barkan ’11 to “The Goat...
Considering the intensely personal nature of the play, Fernandez-Barkan believes that the Adams House Pool is the ideal location for this relatively small-scale production. Renovated from an actual swimming pool, the enclosed, rather claustrophobic stage and its immediate vicinity to the seats will encourage a unique interaction between the viewers and the performers, thereby making the experience of watching the scenes all the more dynamic and fascinating...
...holding African governments accountable for the graft and misrule that sow popular disgruntlement. The West largely contents itself with the appearance of democracy in Africa, not the reality, and gives billions of dollars in aid to corrupt governments. "The World Bank runs around establishing anti-corruption commissions," says Joel Barkan, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington who was in Kenya for the vote. "They have been singularly ineffective." In Kenya the IMF and the World Bank suspended aid in 2006 but later resumed it. Threats to withdraw U.S. and other aid appear...
...concept is great. We’ll see how quickly it picks up,” said Ady Barkan, a sophomore at Columbia, who said he sent news of the site to 50 or so of his friends...
...number of writers have agreed to present at these workshops, including novelist and Radcliffe Institute Fellow Zadie Smith, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language Patricia E. Powell, and expository writing program Preceptor Joshua Barkan...