Word: duchessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AFARM is a highly theoretically informed, theatrical, political performance group," said Catherine A. Corman `96, the organization's duchess. Performance is not AFARM's only venue, however. The December issue of HQ featured AFARM's "plagiarized playscript" supporting gay rights...
...four positions in the organization--archbishop, count, judge and duchess--are taken from the Marquis de Sade's novel 120 Years of Sodom. But AFARM is a collective group, and anyone is welcome to join...
...nineteenth century, an English Duchess of Bedford combined both qualities in seeking a remedy for her mid-afternoon "sinking feeling." She began the tradition of afternoon teas with fine pastries, allowing her to revive her spirits in style...
...brothers (needless to say, no one knows which) is really the King of Barataria, who was stolen away as a baby. Both men are rushed off to the palace by the Machiavellian Grand Inquisitor, who has been hurried into action by the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro. It seems that their daughter Casilda was married in infancy to the young King and they now want her to take her rightful place as Queen. Casilda, meanwhile, is secretly in love with the Duke's servant, Luis, whose mother is (of course) the former nurse of the King...
Gondoliers has a strong supporting cast as well, unusual for the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Laura White's Duchess and Marcia Groome's Inez give fine cameo performances and the chorus, although plagued by one member so annoying that I spent most of the show wishing a flat would drop on her, has a fine vocal quality...