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Johnson's accusation that the Pudding show is robbing women of one of their "only opportunities to act in a professionally-directed show" is completely false. This year alone, The Gondoliers, Guys & Dolls, Hamlet, the Visiting Directors Project, The Corn is Green, the Gilbert & Sullivan spring show and potentially others all had or will have professional stage or vocal directors. Rather, the Pudding is virtually the only show on campus that gives students, female and male alike, the opportunity to work closely with professionals in both the technical and musical sections of our company. With regards to the theater itself...
...coli pollutants. So a commodity most Americans take for granted simply does not exist in Evansville. "My five-year-old daughter doesn't know what it's like to get water out of a faucet," says resident Helen Martin. For the past five years, 200 families in this hamlet in the northwestern part of the state have sought $750,000 from the Arkansas Economic Development Commission for a new water system. Sorry, comes the reply, there is no money in the budget...
...because you don't get around much--not, anyway, to London or Leeds or Los Angeles or other theater venues where McKellen has illuminated the stage for nearly four decades, torched it with his wily intelligence, seduced it with the precision of his plummy voice. He has dwelt inside Hamlet, Romeo, Coriolanus, Richard II and Richard III (in his version, a purring, reptilian gangster), caressed the mood of wistful doom in Chekhov, played Captain Hook and Inspector Hound and, in Bent, a gay man in a Nazi camp. But except for Richard III, which he brilliantly reimagined for film...
...most serious Shakespearean dialogues. Here all those idiosyncracies of Elizabethan English that we profess to understand in section are given a thorough airing. What does the guard mean with his "Stand and unfold yourself?" When did thumb-biting stop being synonymous with giving someone the birdie? Just as Hamlet uses the Death of Gonzago as a way to find his accusatory voice, this play allows Harvard students to flesh out those suspicions they'd always been too pretentious to discuss in the open. Who hasn't thought that the comedies would have been better off as a feature presentation rather...
Howells' best is definitely saved for last. In order to play Hamlet backwards, forwards, and backwards and forwards again even faster, she takes more minor roles in the first act, saving up for the emotional drain of playing the Prince. When the time comes, she is ready. Her Hamlet is worthy of the real RSC, and is thus the perfect target for the ravages of the ridiculous minor characters. Shakespeare frequently exploited the humor in those who take themselves too seriously, and Howells had the difficult role of doing just this throughout the play...