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...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 As pure farce, it succeeds; as pertinent critical satire, it has been outdated...
...lives. Sometimes we are so enthralled with someone else that we barely star in our own. Denial of self becomes a silent declaration of love -- especially a first love like Sophie's. She could be a sister to Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart or a daughter to Stevens the butler in The Remains of the Day. This implosive sort of devotion is found often enough in life but rarely in films. That The Accompanist exists at all is the first reason to cherish...
Sophomore freshman Tricia Klock is another one of the Tiger keystones, shooting 57 percent from the floor (8.3 points and 5.2 rebounds per game). But she will be tested by Harvard star Tammy Butler, who leads the Ivies in scoring (17.2 points per game) and rebounding (12.4 boards per game) has yet to be slowed down by anybody...