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...Saturday, former Adams House Senior Tutor John Hildebidle, provided some of this comic relief. Hildebidle, who is a friend of Solano’s and a Professor of Literature at MIT, entertained customers with haikus about curried chicken...
...could have used some toughening did not help; McCaffrey diluted the role with too much tenderness, and in the process he turned Jake into a petulant bore. The play’s three elderly characters were likewise lacking in interpretation; each of the three actors had occasional moments of comic vigor, yet they did not have the presence required to make their irrational characters compelling...
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’ 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 thru 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...
...probably turn See Spot Run into a haunting examination of the human soul with vague sexual undertones. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow has been apparently sitting on the shelf for some time which immediately sends up warning signals, but the outlandish, late ’30s detective comic visuals in the trailer suggest a full realization of the powers of CGI technology. A safer bet will be Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset, a continuation of the Before Sunrise story nine years after Jesse and Celine first meet on that train to Vienna...