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...BOOK EXCERPT: The Fountain...
Cabranes-Grant attempts to read the play as a meditation on colonialism and social oppression. He prefaces the show with an excerpt from Ellison's Invisible Man, and replaces the masque in the middle with Cervantes' The Magic Theatre. As Cabranes-Grant notes in the program, "Both texts share with The Tempest a particular interest in the contrasts between the invisible and the visible, the shifting boundaries between illusion and reality." But he allows this interesting dramatic analogy to dissipate into meaninglessness by failing to follow it through...
...planned for May. On Memorial Day, St. Martin's Press will publish his new book, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military, in which he claims "a vast gay subculture has emerged within the military," complete with gay Marines in the White House honor guard. An advance excerpt: "At least one gay man has served in the astronaut program . . . The Navy and the Marine Corps had at least one gay person at four-star rank since 1981, and at least one gay man has served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff in that time...
Upon seeing an excerpt from the HRDC production of Woods, Lapine said, "Seeing this reminds me of how much I've taken out of the show. I'm not sure that this is a better version. It's hard when you see your own things. Your except was terrific, except for my embarrassment over my own writing. It's hard to divorce yourself from being the writer. I try to forget that I'm the writer when I start to direct...
...remarks were preceded by an excerpt from one of his videos. His talk was followed by an animated question and answer period. The event was introduced and mediated by Charles J. Ogletree Jr., assistant professor...