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These artistic enactments are forms of mythmaking. They rearrange experience to endow it with drama and significance. The novelist John Gardner once wrote a version of Beowulf from the monster Grendel's point of view. In Gardner's telling, a blind harper appears at King Hrothgar's hall and sings, transforming Hrothgar's bloody, sordid career into "ringing phrases, magnificent, golden, and all of them, incredibly, lies. The man had changed the world, had torn up the past by its thick, gnarled roots and had transmuted it, and they who knew the truth, remembered...
Shabby and pathetic, the monster serves as a reminder of why life needs death in order to retain its dignity. This modern Grendel has really let himself go: With his long, greasy hair and dirty suit, he could be a bum in any of America’s cities. Because Beatrice takes pity on him, even after discovering that he ate her boyfriend, the monster decides to trust her with his story of cosmic disillusionment. “I tried cracking humans open to find out what makes them think they’re so special...
Housed in the newly renovated, turn-of-the-century Pi Eta Society clubhouse building, the Market Theater celebrated its grand opening Saturday night. Located just off of JFK Street next door to Grendel's Restaurant & Bar, the new theater is the latest venue for the arts in Harvard Square...
Housed in the newly renovated, turn-of-the-century Pi Eta Society clubhouse building, the Market Theater celebrated its grand opening Saturday night. Located just off of JFK Street next door to Grendel's Restaurant & Bar, the new theater is the latest venue for the arts in Harvard Square...
...addition his rights project in Idaho, Carr is working to turn the building that housed the former Harvard Square restaurant Grendel's into a new performing space. In addition to live entertainment, the theater will have a film series about human rights...