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Pagans, prisoners, and primitive England were the subject of the inaugural lecture in the series “Medieval Archaeology in the 21st Century,” yesterday afternoon. Professor of Archaeology at York University Martin Carver delivered a speech entitled “Sutton Hoo in the Light of the New Excavations: a Political Weathervane of the Seventh Century” to a crowd of nearly 100 in the Tsai Auditorium at the Center for Government and International Studies. According to Harvard’s Medieval Studies committee member and Goelet Professor of Medieval History Michael McCormick, the lecture...
...Saturdays and Sundays through October 22, including Columbus Day. 10:30 A.M. to 6:30 P.M. $24. Grab a friend with a car (or a friendly nearby mom) and roll anachronistically to King Richard’s Faire in Carver, MA. Take in human chess games, jousting, and minstrels galore at the Faire’s replica of a 16th century marketplace on 80 acres in Eastern Massachusetts. Pick up a love potion or meat pie for your roommate. See www.kingrichardsfaire.net for driving directions. 2. Thursday, September 28, 6 p.m., Free. Does a career that combines your passion...
American fiction is in asatirical mood. Sometime in the 1990s--David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest makes a handy point of reference for weary travelers-- the earnest, rock-hewn realism of the Raymond Carver school gave way to a more fluid, molten hyperrealism. The widespread conviction that truth has become stranger than fiction triggered a kind of strangeness inflation, an arms race of exaggeration, wherein novelists satirically augment and amp up and overclock their fictions in an attempt to keep up with the sheer implausibility of real life...
...This is, of course, an ensemble vehicle. The only name actor, Brent Carver (a 1993 Tony winner for Kiss of the Spider Woman), turns Gandalf into a curious, wispy thing, with eccentric line readings and maundering instead of majesty. Carver's off-putting mannerisms tilt the focus from Gandalf to the hobbits--leprechaunish here, with round bellies and bottoms, like the Munchkins in MGM's Oz--persuasively played by jockey-size actors. James Loye, as Frodo, and Peter Howe, as Sam, get the message that heroes are ordinary folk who rise under extraordinary circumstances. In this predominantly Canadian cast...
...cast is well led by James Loye as Frodo and Peter Howe as Sam. Brent Carver, a Tony winner for Kiss of the Spider Woman, turns Gandalf into a curious, wispy thing, with eccentric line readings and maundering instead of majesty. But Michael Therriault's Gollum is a sensation. As he hisses, squeals and writhes to express Gollum's two warring psyches (the hobbit he was, the half-life wreck his ring lust has made of him), Therriault gives the most astonishing, show-stealingly schizo performance since Steve Martin's half-man-half-woman...