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Boston in the summer is also full of free shows. There is the annual Shakespeare in the Park, presenting Hamlet this year, which is performed in Boston Common from July 16 until August 7. The Hatch Memorial Shell has free movies and concerts throughout the week, during the summer...
...junction of the Ribble and Aire rivers to see whose would go to the Irish Sea and whose would go to the North Sea!"), ignoring the advice of theater directors ("barnstorm führers, the lot") and mocking "gibberish spouting" method actors. "When you're playing Hamlet, and you and Horatio are up on the battlements, Horatio says, 'But, look, the morn in russet mantle clad/ Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.' Well, it isn't! You're looking at Charlie the prop man with a fag in his gob. It's pretend, for God's sake...
...slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," Lincoln stated. "I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel." For Douglass, slavery was not only a sin but "piracy and murder." And both men explained their destiny by quoting the same lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will...
...Today, Nang Nang lives on the rugged Thailand-Burma border in the hamlet of Loi Tai Leng, the headquarters of the Shan State Army (S.S.A.) and the refuge for hundreds of families fleeing the Burmese army's long-running campaign of terror against ethnic minorities such as the Shan. They include more than 200 orphans: Nang Nang, a shyly smiling girl in a grubby tracksuit, shares a tin-roofed dormitory with dozens of other girls who sleep on a wooden platform over a mud floor. For many, this has been home for five years, but not for much longer...
...concentrates on the lives of the obscure--the uncelebrated and faceless figures who make history happen. Furnished with voices, the long silent tribe of Abraham reiterates the observation made by Playwright Tom Stoppard 20 years ago in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: when neglected characters move to center stage, Hamlet himself is only a walk-on. --By Stefan Kanfer Best Sellers...