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...According to Meryl H. Federman ’11, producer and president of the Hyperion Shakespeare Company (HSC), Pericles “is the great guy that horrible things happen to.” She continues, “In that sense, it’s kind of a dark, weird fairy tale...
Though “Pericles” has its dark moments, it is ultimately a comedy. “Pericles is just a normal guy who encounters the wackiest of the wacky, and humors us all as he navigates through the horror show of his travels,” Federman says...
...studio of Vi T. Vu ’10 is stacked with paintings. Vividly fluorescent animal and vegetal figures leap across dark backgrounds, multiplying in mirror images of each other. Look more closely, and strange themes begin to emerge: anthropomorphic shapes, images of violence and renewal, all come together in a series of intricately-articulated symbolic forms. All orders and variety are thrown together, but the composition is far from careless. Vu, has created her own, hard-to-catagorize, world...
...tight, those forsaken treasures / of knowledge must batter the fading blackboards / and swarm the silent, sleeping halls, / like shades of lives never to be lived.” It seems here that Williams is wondering whether his own work will eventually rest unheard and unread in closed books and dark classrooms. One can only imagine, however, that a voice this full of candor and sensitivity will remain audible and appreciated for a long while...
...Reddout ’10 and playing on the Loeb Mainstage through May 1. In Stephen Sondheim’s retelling of several classic fairy tales, Jack (of ‘Beanstalk’ fame), Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Cinderella all find themselves wandering in the same dark woods. Tying these various stories together is that of the Baker and his Wife, who search for the four items that will lift a curse that has been cast on them: “The cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow...