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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). What if two of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies were really comedies? That is the question asked in Ann-Marie MacDonald's play of jealousy, rage, murder, love, lust, crossdressing and mutilated turtles named Hector. 7:30 at the Loeb Experimental Theater. Tickets are free...
Admitting a killer to campus, as the Cambridge Chronicle pointed out this week, has not been a concern before. Four years ago, Harvard granted Guatemalan Gen. Hector Gramajo a master's degree. The University was well aware that Gramajo had directed the death squads responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Guatemalans...
...went by a rich variety of aliases: Salim. Andres Martinez. Taurus. Glen Gebhard. Hector Hevodidbon. Michel Assaf. During an infamous career that spanned two decades, Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez used all those names. But the public knew him as Carlos the Jackal, the moniker that best evoked his ruthless, predatory spirit. As he boldly declared in 1975 while holding 11 OPEC ministers hostage in Vienna: "To get anywhere, you have to walk over the corpses." His image is frozen in time in crude black-and-white photos of a pudgy face that seemed menacing in its banality and came to symbolize...
...girlfriend Shush, for instance) and in their banality (Mag calls to tell Hecetor that her assistant Joseph has died from the disease, but that she doesn't see it as just "a lot of rotten luck," but "as a doorway into the New Age"). But if the cast surrounding Hector approaches satire, it is perhaps as his situation dictates. They are all around him, and they are with him, but not for long. Only his death will remain, and it only will have any substance. In this sense they can only be hollow...
...however, that Mr. Kondoleon's humor becomes wholly ironic. The comedy moves alongside the tragedy, and the tenuous relation of the two generally manages to avoid seeming bitter or sarcastic. One does not necessarily override the other Death is not funny, maybe, but Hector certainly is. And while death is surely present in the novel, we are detached from it to some extent. We are busy listening to Hector...