Word: comical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...combat the pending seriousness, resourceful Harvard students staged a spot of comic relief at the 1955 Harvard-Yale game: during halftime, the Yale Marching Band was forced to share the field with several greased pigs...
...based on the work of Jazzman Cannonball Adderley that went on to a limited run at the Kennedy Center in Washington; and the U.S. premiere of Odon von Horvath's Figaro Gets a Divorce, a work of protest written in 1937 in Nazi Germany. Currently playing are Gillette, a comic adventure set in a Wyoming boomtown, and a modern version of the Greek tragedy Ajax, directed by Peter Sellars and imported from Sellars' now defunct American National Theater in Washington...
...Earle Hyman and John Vickery in Julius Caesar and Paxton Whitehead in a revival of Beyond the Fringe. But the repertory also meets one of Artistic Director Jack O'Brien's longstanding goals, a world premiere of a substantial new play staged by him. The work, Emily, depicts the comic misadventures of a female yuppie, a hard- working stock trader who refuses to acquire furniture, artwork or a steady boyfriend for fear of being tied down. She picks up a waiter who is an out-of- work actor; he refuses to be bought or treated as an object, and they...
...this is not all wide-eyed and innocent fairy tale theater. Director Andrei Serban has thrown in his share of the hip and trampy. Brighella (Harry S. Murphy), the king's man servant, and Smeraldina (Isabell Monk), Brighella's sister, are the low-class comic duo strutting about the stage. Tramping about, dressed like a tattered peacock of a Southern belle, Smeraldina angles for the king and then anyone who will take her. And Brighella is not above telling her how used her wares...
...West Coast ranch. Anyone who spent a night in a public park risked a police rousting. But as the numbers of dispossessed grew, and police began cracking down, Santa Barbara came in for increasing criticism and ridicule. Last week, as Doonesbury Cartoonist Garry Trudeau lampooned Santa Barbara in his comic strip and Mitch Snyder, a Washington-based activist, threatened to march on Santa Barbara on Labor Day with thousands of homeless people, the city council relented. Overnight sleeping will soon be permitted in certain designated public areas, including undeveloped, city-owned lots, and cars parked on city streets. After next...