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...restored the company's tradition of rotating repertory. Among the current offerings: Cyrano de Bergerac and an adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations. The highlight of the season, however, is Ciulei's final production as artistic director, an idiosyncratic and brilliant Dream that is probably the best since Brook...
...nearly four centuries since it was written, A Midsummer Night's Dream was regarded as one of William Shakespeare's slighter works, an "airy nothing" in the play's own words, of no more substance than a trick that moonlight might play on the eye. But since Peter Brook's landmark rediscovery of the play's darker essence in his 1970 production with the Royal Shakespeare Company, scholars and theatergoers alike have recognized that Dream is much more than a slapstick farce of lovers tangling in a green glade. Its narrative blends wars of the sexes, of social classes...
Ciulei's vision, which downplays romance and sees courtship and marriage as raw struggles for power, owes much to Brook. But the insights into the characters, the reasoned resistance to happy endings and especially the mesmeric visual imagery are Ciulei's own. From the first moment, this Dream shows itself to be more about grim realities and revelatory nightmares. The captive Amazon Queen Hippolyta (Lorraine Toussaint), garbed as a soldier and coiffed with a Grace Jones-style Mohawk, stands mute yet defiant as the guards of Duke Theseus (Gary Reineke) surround her. They tear off her uniform and toss...
Patrons customize their sandwiches—all named after nearby Cambridge streets—with one of 12 fresh breads delivered daily by Nashoba Brook Bakery in Concord. Options include ciabatta, sourdough and—only on weekends—Pepper Jack...
...combination of two one-act plays under the direction of Brian R. Fairley ’05. Produced by Mollie M. Kirk ’07, this performance pairs two very different, but complementary plays (“The Man Who…” written by Peter Brook and Marie Helen Estienne and “The Man Who Turned Into a Stick” by Kobo Abe) for a unified and touching effect. Although initially slow-paced, the strong performances by the small five-person cast, marked by its versatility and physicality, overcome this early slow start...