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...Frogs revolves around the adventures of Dionysus (Nick J. Reifsnyder ’05), the god of drama, who is distraught by the horrible quality of tragedies that are being written. With the help of his comic slave Xanthias (Joe L. Dimento ’05) and the soup-obsessed Hercules (Brandon J. Smith ’04) he descends into hell to find a better playwright. In the second half, two dead poets, the tweedy old-fashioned Aeschylus (Benet Magnuson ’06) and the Bohemian Euripides (Alex H. Salskov ’04), face...
...live guitar (courtesy of the Makoto Concern), wear goggles, green tank tops and foam froggy headbands—you can’t help laughing at even the worst puns. One only wishes there was no intermission—the 10-minute break in this short play brings the comic momentum to a screeching halt just when it’s gathered to a head...
Performing from an original translation, the Harvard Classical Club will bring The Frogs back to life in a riveting, action filled play, complete with gods, playwrights, and, yes, frogs. Written by Aristophanes, one of the most astonishing comic playwrights of ancient times, the performance tells the story of god Dionysus’s march to Hell in an attempt to bring a great tragedian back from the dead to end the string of mediocre playwrights. Directed by Christopher A. Kukstis ’05, and produced by David H. Camden ’05. Thursday March 18 through Saturday March...
...must insulate her from any shocks, because a stressful event could kill her. Since his mother was fiercely loyal to the idealism of the DDR, Alex makes it his goal to keep her from finding out about the dramatic political changes through which she slept. This deception provides the comic meat of the film, with Alex employing a series of ever more ridiculous ruses to convince his mother that nothing’s changed. However, Brecker does not use his ample talent solely for humor’s sake. Goodbye, Lenin! is dotted with distilled illustrations of the many facets...
...Unfortunately the bleep - intended as a fleeting comic throwaway inspired by the famously blue-talking diva - did not happen.? My KCRW engineer - still employed at the station - forgot.? And this moment became what Ruth Seymour, my station manager, would describe to Reuters as my very own "Janet Jackson performance piece...