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...plot of Miss Saigon is well known. That familiarity should function as an asset, but instead the creators use it as a crutch, never bothering to flesh out details or develop characters that seem human, let alone worthy of care. Adapted from the opera Madame Butterfly, Miss Saigon follows the plight of a young Vietnamese woman, who takes up residence with an American G.I., only to be separated two weeks later when Saigon falls. The aftermath of their brief time together, including the future of the child she bears him, form what the show calls its plot...
It’s interesting to note that the Engineer is the only character in the show with depth. Though he is meant to represent a cultural phenomenon, he manages in his unrepentant lustfulness to emerge as truly human and sympathetic. Consequently, in his depth and in his function of occasionally delivering commentary, he doesn’t seem to fit in the show. It is also noteworthy, then, that he is the only character that the show’s authors conjured without relying on the source material. Their achievement with this creation leaves one to ponder how successful...
...Heather J. Thomason ’03, and the program explains that the company “stages plays pertinent to women, as well as hosting social events and promoting open discussion of theater and women’s issues on campus.” This is an important function, for as the company website states, “Although more women than men audition for Harvard productions, most plays feature more available male roles...
This year more than a dozen senior English concentrators are in the process of writing theses that differ significantly in form and function from those of their peers. These are the authors of creative theses—novels, poems, short stories and plays—that aspire to do what all good theses do, present original ideas in a compelling manner...
...vision of science that informs these photographs is, paradoxically, not scientific at all. Traditional science in the form of medicine seeks to classify, parametrize and regularize the body—with the aim of predicting and controlling function. Schneider works with a greater degree of freedom, in much the same way that chaos theory has opened up complex new vistas in hard science. Schneider shows how abstract art can be natural, since it can be generated simply by looking at parts of the body in a completely new way. Ironically, since science uses “handedness?...