Word: butler
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Harvard also seized 56 offensive and defensive boards for the night. Junior Tammy Butler nabbed 17 for the Crimson. Harvard usually averages only 41 team rebounds per game...
...What the Butler...
...Wednesday evening, the American Repertory Theatre opened its production of Orton's What the Butler Saw. In the script, Orton's cleverness, if not outright genius, stands unquestioned. He has a keen knack for dramatizing many of his favorite themes by "inverting" the common knowledge, wherein the normal--progressively through the show--becomes the abnormal and vice versa. His brilliant farce of late 60s English society leaves nothing sacred, not even the phallus of Winston Churchill...
This blasphemy, however, is no longer blasphemy. What the Butler Saw pales in comparison to, say, the most recent episode of "Beavis and Butthead" or Madonna's latest performance. As pure farce, it succeeds; as pertinent critical satire, it has been outdated...
Despite the script's craftiness and the strong acting, this production is weighed down by the simple fact that what the butler saw in 1967 seems rather banal compared to what the butler now sees. More politically inclined people should not expect much ammunition from this production. However, for those looking for a lighthearted farce (albeit unfamiliar) written by one of the wittiest British humourists, What the Butler Saw at the A.R.T. is a good...