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...bizarrely dressed members of the cast of Wuthering Heights are crammed into the Loeb theatre's Green Room. They have three hours until the curtain goes up, and no one is happy about...
When the final curtain eventually comes down--in metaphor only, as the Kirkland JCR is not well-equiped theatrically--the audience is left with a sense of relief and sadness. One is relieved that the troubled play has concluded and has even provided a moral--"try and cheat the government and look what happens." However, one is also saddened by the realization that the Kirkland House production was pretty much doomed from the start. Given the uncohesive script, with its shoddily constructed plot and poorly developed characters, the present production deserves at least an "A" for effort...
OVERWHELMING THE LOWBUDGET staging of Junior Common Room vinyl, the Lowell House Drama Society renders an impressive performance of Edward Albee's classic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. A cosy setting without lights, curtain or stage serves to bring the audience right into the living room with sparring couple George (Daniel Zelman) and Martha (Alicia Rubin), and their tortured guests Nick (Aaron Carlos) and Honey (Jane Loranger...
...that made his best work sublime rather than plain or mean. The pavilion in Barcelona was the apotheosis of posh Miesian austerity: slender chrome-plated columns, travertine floors, slabs of Algerian onyx (which alone accounted for 20% of the construction cost), green Tinian marble, etched glass, a grand red curtain. The big leather-and-steel Barcelona chair remains a popular modern icon. The pavilion was small and stood for only eight months, which makes its feat--converting the world to a new kind of architecture--even more extraordinary. It was intended by the German government to clean up the country...
...soon as the curtain lifts halfway to reveal three sequined bellies gyrating to an Arabian beat, we know we're not in Kansas anymore...