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...Birnbaum ’07 says with enthusiasm.Birnbaum spends most of her day thinking about art. She’s starred in a number of Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club productions and is currently directing Federico García Lorca’s “The House of Bernarda Alba” in the Loeb Experimental Theatre.And Steve Reich’s work is, if nothing else, “artistic” music. For its listeners, it’s hardly guilty; for most, it’s hardly a pleasure.“Listen to this. It?...
Harvard veteran director Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 tapped the promising Shafrin to be the assistant director for the high-profile run of Federico Garcia Lorca’s "The House of Bernarda Alba" this spring...
...newest Maconderos can be found in Of Love and Other Demons (Knopf; 147 pages; $21). Their literary roots are unmistakable. The Marquis de Casalduero is "a funereal, effeminate man, as pale as a lily because the bats drained his blood while he slept." His powerhouse wife Bernarda imports and resells flour and sleeps with the help. Their daughter Maria has rejected her European origins for the Yoruban language and ornaments of her African servants. Added to this New World mix are Abrenuncio, a Portuguese-Jewish physician suspected of necromancy, and Father Cayetano Delaura, a young priest with a thirst...
GlLGAMESH, by Bernarda Bryson (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $4.95). A retelling of what is said to be the oldest legend known to man: the story of Gilgamesh, the great king of a Sumerian city, and his friend Enkidu, the half-beast, half-man originally created by the gods to destroy him. With its magnificent illustrations by the author, this book should appeal to all ages...
Passion & Loathing. Lorca wrote 13 plays, but he was not in any usual sense a playwright. His best works-Yerma, Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba-are really prose poems, and no one of them has the kind of dramat ic power that seals an audience in its seat. Yerma is the story of a young peasant woman who yearns so passionately for a child that she finally murders her sterile husband, crying "But I have killed my son!" Blood Wedding is a study of one of the terrible family feuds that used to be waged generation after generation...