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Starting Feb. 22 at the Loeb Experimental Theater, Harvard’s Immediate Gratification Players (IGP), a long-form improvisation comedy group, will present “IGP Laugh Riot Festival X: The Enchanted Forest.” The show will also feature groups from several other colleges. Due to the Roving Reporter’s lack of comedic talent, this paragraph is not interesting.Kevin T. Burrows ’10RR: Tell me about the Immediate Gratification Players.KB: IGP is a long-form improv comedy troupe. Usually what we’ll do is take a one-word suggestion...
...charm. The Bread and Puppet Theater did perform two kids-geared matinees over the weekend—maybe their aesthetic benefited from such thematic simplification.The production had several other redeeming 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...
...Australian troops hunting them are wasting their time. "There are the hills, the mountains, caves, rivers to hide in. Indonesia had 18 battalions in Timor," he says, referring to the time Jakarta tried to suppress the Timorese independence movement, "and they never succeeded against the guerrillas in the forest." And, he says, the rebels enjoy popular support. "The local people will not tell them where they are hiding...
...star-crossed lovers caught in mid-tryst. They're western gorillas in Nouabale-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo, observed by primatologists whose interest is far more scientific than it is prurient. There's reason to watch - Leah and George's moment in the Mbeli Bai forest clearing, captured on film by a team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Germany and the Wildlife Conservation Society, is one of the only times gorillas have been seen mating face-to-face, rather than face-to-back. "It's an extremely rare behavior," says Thomas Breuer, the primatologist...
...organized crime, saying that his government has captured over 22,000 criminals and seized over “one billion personal doses” of drugs over the past year, his first of six in office. He also added that Mexico has re-planted 600,000 acres of forest in the past year, starting to reverse a national trend of de-forestation...