Word: griselda
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...Jerista), the world traveler, Lady Nijo (Scottie Thompson), a former courtesan in the Japanese court, Pope Joan (Emma Firestone ’05), the only woman to ever hold the papal office, Dull Gret (Emily J. Carmichael ’04), the subject of a Bruegel painting, and Patient Griselda (Sarah E. Curtis ’05), the obedient wife from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The women not so much share their stories over the dinner table as try to one-up each other with their experiences. Although the setup for the scene...
...make the Loeb Experimental Theater into a labyrinth? This is the challenge faced by director Jesse A. Green ’02-’03 in adapting Information for Foreigners (IFF), Griselda Gambaro’s experimental 1972 play concerning the disorienting violence of Argentina’s Dirty War. Though unable to construct a complex of separate stages, Green has developed a variety of techniques, primarily utilizing film, to transpose the play’s concerns of voyeurism and power to the intimate...