Word: harlequin
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...music reflects the mimic style and adds another artistic dimension to it. "Love in the Pantry," a piece based on the harlequin character from the commedia dell' arte, tells the story of the harlequin's love for a maid. His courting is spurned at first, but he wins her over and she offers him food and drink. The other servants in the house discover him and throw him out bodily, with the offending maid close behind. The two pick themselves up, held themselves to the supplies of the pantry, and live happily ever after. By associating the characters with instruments...
...Harlequin Theater Company presents Total Eclipse, a biographical drama about poets Rimbaud and Verlaine, at the Agassiz Theater in the Radcliffe Yard, Thursday-Sunday at 8, through January 29. Also at Harvard, the Loeb features the National Theater of the Deaf in The Three Musketeers, January...
...actresses savaged by Simon. He has described Maureen Stapleton as inhabiting "a large, amorphous body out of which protrude flipperlike limbs and a face without a single redeeming feature." To Simon, Maggie Smith resembles "an upstart rooster aspiring to barnyard supremacy." Glenda Jackson "has the looks of an asexual harlequin." Most leading ladies suffer Simon silently, but after he characterized Sylvia Miles as a "party girl and gate crasher," she dumped a plate of food on him in a Manhattan restaurant...
...realize is that his mimicry deprives him of identity (just as the best parody is only barely distinguishable from its victim), and he, the mocking schoolboy, becomes the personification of his school. Similarly, denatured anarchy can exist in the King's Court, the eunuch in the harem, and the Harlequin can blend into the royal robes. Christ, the ultimate fool in his renunciation of worldly existence, can exist in the world but not of it; unfortunately, the institution of the Church and Christianity must live in this world and of it, and so it evolves from the mouse that roared...
...epic farce presented by the Harlequin Theatre Company. It was written by Alfred Jarry and is showing at the People's Theatre, 1253 Cambridge St., Inman Square, Cambridge. Tickets are $4 and call 646-6079 or 391-6564 for more info...