Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each play gets three months preparation time, yet the atmosphere on this opening night is exceptionally casual. Last minute tidying up around the set, lights testing and the chorus' presence onstage before the show all give it the feel of a dress rehearsal. At second glance, family and friends of the Institute seem to constitute the bulk of the audience. Even publicity has been kept low-key, with no press night provided and reviews kindly prohibited...
...play, "The Cure at Troy," written in 1991. After the Ex's expressly experimental purpose, the students have trussed up the Nobel laureate's adaptation of Sophocles' "Philoctetes" with smartly tailored costumes, special effects and a few playful hypotheticals all their own: With scripts at hand would the Greek Chorus, like the Three Fates, look more like directors than a traditional chorus merely commenting on the action? Could you make an Odysseus speech look extemporaneous if the chorus frantically flipped through their scripts looking for lines that weren't there...
...students also played with the physical space, common Ex fare, but here again, the experiments were novel. The light table and operator sat on the stage below the audience rather than behind it, and the chorus had their own table to sit at like a committe or a review board. Adding a bit of awkward confusion, two of the actors froze the last moment of the final scene before intermission straight through intermission to the opening of the next act. No one knew when to applaud and when to stretch...
...creation of this statement against terrorism, to recognize and condemn injustice and to cooperate with other campus organizations in an open-minded attempt to raise awareness of the injustice and evil of terrorism. The Harvard Islamic Society does not hesitate for a moment in adding its voice to the chorus of voices that condemn terrorism. Moreover, our condemnation represents a firm belief that since all violence against innocent human beings is wrong, certain violent acts cannot be selectively condemned, while others are ignored...
...chorus of "The Yard already knows!" swept through the crowd of people waiting around the central staircase half an hour before Wood arrived...