Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curtain closed on the Harvard field hockey team's cinderella season last night as Boston University shut out the Crimson...
Since 1969, Southern Mutual has worked to improve the lives of those who toil in the fields. Back then, many farmworkers lived behind the "cane curtain" in self-contained plantations with names such as the Bottoms, Oxford and Dog Quarters, filled with rented shacks reminiscent of the tarnished side of the antebellum era. The field hands were paid with chits and exchanged the paper for goods at overpriced company stores. Since crops are seasonal, the field hands ran up large tabs, which were then deducted from their pay and resulted in a lifetime of indenture. Those who quit were ordered...
...Connor is fortunate to have material this rich and this timeless with which to work. This travelling production of Joyicity played to packed audiences at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Its one-night staging in Toronto elicited 17 curtain calls. And judging from the quality of this engagement, such praise was well-deserved...
...Sweating Door Alarm is a wonderful, bizarre piece of drama. Director Douglas Fitch has created a montage of different realities, using the stage to his best advantage. As the curtain rises, the audience faces a wall of television windows, each containing an animated actor. These actors struggle to burst out of the strict confines of the screens. In much the same way, The Sweating Door Alarm challenges the confines of the stage on which it takes place...
Only then can the Crimson apply the pressure they will need to score on the Minutewomen's "steel curtain" defense...