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...usual Harvard staples to look forward to: Shepard, Stoppard, Shakespeare and Sullivan (with Gilbert). Also ahead of us though are Cibula, Smith, Davenport and Yang--four undergraduate playwrights getting their scripts produced. These particular plays are difficult to classify, ranging from Sweet Sins, a drama about domestic violence to A Nite-Lite, which the Common Casting pamphlet describes only as, "Urban. Absurd. Harsh. Ludicrous. Surprising. Possible...
OTHERWISE WE'VE GOT the usual batch of tragedies, comedies, musicals and thrillers. Under Harvard's drama calendar, the spring's four major productions include two Loeb Mainstage dramas sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club and two musicals: the annual Hasty Pudding show and the twice-a-year Gilbert & Sullivan Players offering...
...tests supervised by Dr. Beatrice Couzinet and Dr. Gilbert Schaison, 100 women volunteers who were less than a month pregnant were given RU 486. Of these, 85 aborted within four days, largely without the discomfort and psychological problems that can accompany other forms of abortion. Because of these remarkable results, the drug is expected to be approved for use in + France and Sweden as early as next spring. In the U.S., where abortion is hotly debated, the drug's future is less certain. John Willke, the president of the National Right to Life Committee, has already referred to the drug...
Unlike Wilde, however, Gilbert and Sullivan managed to make virtue fun. In Pirates of Penzance, the musical team ribbed the notion of the 'true Englishman' without discarding the belief that British ways are, after all, the most decent...
Unarguably, Pirates is strong material for the stage, even in an age as decadent as our own. But great material does not necessarily make for great productions. Gilbert and Sullivan's musically complicated librettos require a talented cast and orchestra--a combination generally in short supply. Happily, Harvard's Gilbert and Sullivan society delivers a lively and professional production, a big-budget spectacle worthy of a Victorian opera...