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...when Aristophanes first wrote “The Birds” in 414 B.C. This past weekend, April 27 to 29, at the Agassiz Theatre, the words fit again—but the Harvard Classics Club elevated these definitions up to a whole new level. Directed by Claire E. Catenaccio ’07 and produced by Paul D. Franz ’07 and Alexandra M. Helprin ’07, the Classics Club production boasted not only a primarily student-translated version of the Greek text but also new witticisms and pop culture allusions fitted to the modern...
Thursday, April 27-Saturday, April 29.7:30 p.m. Agassiz Theatre. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office. $5. “A little bit Buñuel, a little bit Chaplin, and a little bit Monty Python,” is the description offered by director Claire E. Catenaccio ’07 of The Harvard Classical Club’s upcoming production of Aristophanes’s “The Birds,” which premiered yesterday in the Agassiz Theatre. The comedy, which dates from the fifth century B.C., chronicles the misadventures of two idealistic Athenians, Pisthetairos...
...Catenaccio calls the play’s plot a “bizarre mix of surreal elements,” but says that, “it’s nice to put on something so cheerfully unwholesome...
...translation isn’t the only thing new about The Classical Club’s production. Catenaccio says, “We also worked with a lyricist and choreographer to develop the bird chorus’ songs and dances, and we brought a composer on board to write us an original score...
...Catenaccio says that her staging of the play will strike a compromise between contemporary and Classical aesthetic preferences: “We’ve tired to keep the play funny, and we’ve added a few modern jokes, but a level of remove from the contemporary world preserves the work’s sense of fantasy...