Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Parents, Lovers, and Other Problems unfolds in the Dunster House Dining Hall, decorated with enough panache to help you forget the the real setting. The place is transformed into a cabaret--small, candlelit tables dot the floor, and drinks and snacks are served to the audience...
...would think that Heinz Lyscik, director of an East Berlin cabaret famous for its risque pillorying of the former political order, would be overjoyed at the fall of the Communists and the prospect of unification with the West. Imagine: no more hassles with the censors, complete artistic freedom, new crowds from the West flocking to his place, Die Distel. But Lyscik is more worried than cheered. Under the Communists, he notes, "we got 13 marks per ticket in subsidies. Tickets cost patrons only 1.50 marks. Now we are already up to 4 to 8 marks, and we don't know...
...good idea," said China F. Forbes '92, an Adams House resident who will be singing at the cabaret. "It brings artists from all over the college...
Admission to the cabaret will be $3 for residents of Leverett House, $4 for other students and $5 for non-Harvard attendees...
Most houses have their own cabarets, Doctoroff said. But she said most of them feature only house members, and that students still needed a cabaret that attracted different talents from across the University...