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...using Andrew Porter’s English translations. Despite these concessions to a lay audience, the actors are talented and the production is polished and professional. Turning the Dunster House dining hall, grand as it is, into a useable venue for opera is no small feat and the set designed by Thalassa G. Raasch ’09 is a success because its functionality makes the most of a challenging space. A backlit screen offers the opportunity for stage director Matthew M. Spellberg ’09 to display two locations to the audience at the same time...
...qualities. The action—or lack thereof—played out before a gorgeous painted backdrop of a forest. Throughout “The Divine Reality Comedy,” the company made excellent use of exquisite two-dimensional cut-outs of clouds, stars and faces. Puppetry and design is clearly the group’s forte. A particularly impressive feat of costuming surfaced when the ensemble donned security cameras for heads, in what was stylistically unique yet contrived commentary on post-Patriot Act surveillance. But the impact of this too was lessened when one of the cast members...
...there are obvious signs of rebellion against the redbrick regime, such as some of the modernist housing built in the last half century (Mather, the Leverett Towers, and New Quincy) and, most markedly, the Science Center, but these reflect Harvard’s history, too: the Science Center was designed by a former dean of the Design School who also designed Holyoke Center. Even these concrete behemoths are products of the University’s cultural transformation itself, not attempts at mimicry...
...ideas into the production. Spellberg: It’s a more fun job than producing. It is more daunting but more interesting—you have more agency over the show and can really say what you want to say: you have so much control over the design scheme, the movement, and the costuming. For example, Spellberg opted to stage Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” in an English country house during the 1920s rather than the original 18th century Italy. The show makes use of gramophones and cameras to make the production authentically...
...academese.” Pinker gave The Crimson his own “Best Recommended” list of books that balance style and substance: “The Selfish Gene” and “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design,” by Richard Dawkins “The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do,” by Judith Rich Harris “Passions Within Reason,” by Robert H. Frank “The Moral Animal...