Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PLUSCA CHANGE, plus e'est lameme chose:" one of the more memorable lines in The Devil Always Wins, it could, in fact, serve as its thesis statement as well. Not that the basic idea is bad, mind you, though somewhat familiiar, man sells out to the devil, thinks he has gotten the better end of the deal, and discovers otherwise. We've seen what's been done with this theme in the past; let's see what's been done here...
...else. A reasonable request. "Can't you talk of something else besides the weather, vegetables, and domestic animals?" Nicholas demands, as he proceeds to undertake this task with twice as much time as Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy but with only half the wit. Luckily for him, the Devil (Bill Saunders) intervenes at just the right moment, stepping out inexplicably from the cupboard. (Has he been at those Pop-tarts again?) Through various ruses, he manages to finagle Flatford into signing away his soul in return for a large number of material goods to be provided before the following morning...
...Green River. You'll spend three days with eagles and sheep and enough sleepers and rapids to make you happy to get back to the safety of Cambridge. Not only is Legal an expert raftsman, he's a gourmet cook, and after you've survived the hell of Devil's Elbow, he'll rustle you up some trout that'll make you even happier you're alive...
...task of "doing lights" for a set is a little more solitary and involves a "ludicrous" time commitment, says J. Kent Smith '88, master electrician for this spring's production of The Devil Always Wins. While planning a lighting design, Smith says he also has to take into account the limitations of the equipment as well as "any color that's going to be on stage...
...Adam's noble Hermit, provincially sung by an all East European cast. The Freischutz production further suffered from Joachim Herz's relentlessly proletarian staging. The first great German romantic opera and a major influence on Wagner, Freischutz is the story of a forester, Max, who almost falls into the devil's clutches trying to regain his lost marksmanship and win the hand of his beloved Agathe. In Herz's hands, though, Weber's tuneful, folkish fable became an undisguised metaphor of the new social order in the farmers' and workers' state. He illustrated the class struggle, for example, by having...