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...ancient Rome by allowing the audience to connect the themes of this 400-year-old play to issues facing our community and country today. Most significantly, Nauzyciel elevates Brutus’ servant Lucius from a small role to the focus of the production, transforming him into a deaf-mute boy who sees the play’s characters, already dead, reenacting their lives in his dreams. Lucius remains onstage for the entirety of the performance, sometimes watching passively and occasionally reacting vigorously to the acts committed before him. In his director’s notes, Nauzyciel states that...
...dish kind that Chicago-folks swear by. No—it was what I would describe as reconstituted space pizza, in a personal-sized tin trays. But it was pizza. And I was an easily pleased second grader, who didn’t think past the fact that a boy would soon try to knock me off the monkey bars onto spiky tanbark during recess...
...Monet's Poppies near Vétheuil and van Gogh's Blossoming Chestnut Branches were found in a parking lot of a Zurich psychiatric hospital. The two other looted paintings, Cezanne's The Boy in the Red Vest and Degas' Count Lepic and His Daughters, are still missing...
...King, an eighth grader who identified as gay and wore makeup and nail polish, was 15 when he was declared brain dead on Feb. 13. The day before, he had been shot in the head in an Oxnard, Calif., classroom full of students. Police have charged a sweet-faced boy called Brandon McInerney, 14, with first-degree murder and with a hate crime. According to the Los Angeles Times and KTLA, McInerney and some other boys accosted King about his sexuality on Feb. 11. Students apparently often taunted King, who didn't even have a safe home to return...
...crime, a chilling execution carried out in a typical suburban school - allegedly by a boy who probably hasn't started shaving - has shocked Oxnard and captured the attention of gay and transgender activists around the country. On Friday, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force released a statement saying, in part, "Our hearts go out to Lawrence's family - and to all young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender kids who are - right now, right this minute - being bullied and beaten in school while adults look the other way." Another group, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) called...