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...There are not too many opportunities in this sport to compete in front of 50,000 people,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “For us to bring such a large contingent was great...
...assumptions, the absurdist aesthetic of “Tres sombreros de copa” promises to challenge conventional understandings of theater.Rodriguez believes that the whimsical yet reflective production will facilitate a less rigid approach to theater as well as life. She points out that the seriousness that Harvard students bring to their work also influences their understanding of drama. At Harvard, Rodriguez says, students are more likely to view participation in a play as a chance to build a resumé. Elsewhere, theater offers an escape from practical concerns.“In Spain, for example, in the theatre...
...Third” manages to succeed in an entirely new, albeit startling way.With a new attitude comes a new aesthetic, and it’s remarkable to hear how the band has matured since trip-hop’s heyday. While that music ultimately strove to bring a sort of hypnotic order to a combination of sampled and original material, here the band seems to revel in imperfection. The best example of this kind of self-conscious disruption is the first track, “Silence,” where a bizarre Portuguese radio monologue gives way to a primal...
...German brothers removed much of the overt sexuality from their retellings of traditional folk tales, but they seemed to have a soft spot for dismembering their younger characters and feeding them to the wolves. This Saturday, Harvard’s Sunken Garden Children’s Theater will bring twisted Grimm humor to audiences of all ages with their performance of “The Three Spinners.” Choosing a Brothers Grimm story for children’s theater is not uncommon, and the tone of this play isn’t unprecedented within the Sunken Garden?...
...novel—of sponsoring a prize, of offering $10,000 of my own money who first delivered a novel,” Franzen said. Franzen also noted the potential obsolescence of serious fiction, saying that the purpose of the novel is not to “vividly bring home social conditions.” “When you have the opportunity to do a documentary—to do Frontline, to do The Wire—and reach a much larger audience much quicker and you actually gain, it’s more vivid, you can go right...