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Race needs to be talked about openly and immediately. That’s the straightforward message of Code Switch 7, a brand-new theater company founded by the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) seven African American students: Renee-Marie Brewster, Anthony Gaskins, Kelley Green, Faith O. Imafedon ’07, Richard Scott, Charles Settles, and Lindsay Strachan. Under the mentorship of Professor Robert Scanlan, they will be performing their debut show at 2pm on Sunday, February 7 at Club Oberon...
...race has a lot to do with it,” Settles explains. According to the group, the casting process is generally not racist, but being African American will inevitably cause an audience to perceive a character differently, even when the intent of the actor remains the same. As Green says, “We’re going to be faced with, ‘I’d love to do this show but I can’t,’ or, ‘I could totally do that role but I visually cannot...
...company’s debut performance shocks or offends, that’s also part of the process. “If you’re really excited, come,” Green says. “If you’re apprehensive about it, and you don’t really want to listen, and you don’t really want to share, come anyway, because some of us in the cast are feeling that way too. If you are kind of on the fence, come. See it. You’re going to be sharing the same...
Possibly the most significant light appears at the end of the first chapter, when Gatsby reaches for the distant green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. The novel’s enduring symbol of the American dream, the green light is paid homage in a lovely moment in which a backlit Gatsby leaves the office, and a small, single green light is visible on the wall. Though it manages to evoke the sorrow and impossibility of Gatsby’s life, doomed to mortality by his idealistic dream, the moment is far from dispiriting?...
...leaders of the opposition, a compromise has obvious attractions. Resilient as the protesters may be, it's not clear that the Green Movement can continue indefinitely in the face of the state's overwhelmingly superior force - nor is there any visible prospect of the regime's losing control of the streets. Iconic leaders such as Karroubi, Khatami and Mousavi are perhaps less dangerous to the government free than they would be if imprisoned, because their movement's activities are so curtailed and many of their aides and allies are in jail. Moreover, the longer the protests have continued...