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...than her original role as the Boatswain. Every summer from then on, Lloyd-Bollard performed in Shakespeare Under the Stars, the community theater group in her hometown of Hampshire, Mass. Arriving at Harvard, Lloyd-Bollard was more certain about her theatrical goals than about how to attain them. College drama presented new challenges for her: “I knew I wanted to keep acting. I had trouble getting cast freshman year—it’s really kind of a hard scene to break into.” But friends in the theater encouraged her to pursue...
...Dramatic Club’s production of “Adelphoe,” however, is “hilarious.” According to Taxin, Terence’s “Adelphoe” is the best known version of the play. “Early Roman drama is heavily an adaptation; they weren’t as interested in creating their own drama,” Taxin says. “It wasn’t a part of their philosophy.” The center of the play’s plot is the relationship...
...terms of popular culture, the year 2008 has been very good to the ’hood. With the recent run of popular HBO show “The Wire,” the drama of the American inner-city has earned critical street cred: everyone is talking about it. The recently released “Cop in the Hood” capitalizes on this spike in interest about the worst drug markets of Baltimore, Md., as it brings a sociologist’s eye to the situation that captivated the interest of millions nationwide...
Adding extra drama to the already charged matchup, Harvard goalie Joe Pike suffered an injury in practice seating him for Saturday’s contest. O’Donnell came in to start his first game this season and held Yale to five goals making five important saves...
...Young and the Restless,” à la Mary J. Blige? Well, not in this album, anyway. Then again, the kind of writing and music that Slug and Ant produce makes you seriously wonder whether they’ve ever watched a daytime drama. I doubt they would even get the cultural reference should they listen to Blige’s “No More Drama.” For a glimpse of what’s going on in their heads, listen to “The Waitress,” which describes the daily routine...