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After directing Tartuffe in Jan. 2004, he went on to what he describes as the “best show I’ve ever done”: Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. He found, despite his love for the piece, that it was not entirely well-received. A review in The Crimson assailed the title actress, calling her “eminently unbelievable ... recklessly artificial and horribly overplanned.” The review sparked a controversy in the Harvard theater world, leading Ursula G. DeYoung ’04 to write a long letter to the editor...
...Hedda Gabler - and with only a handful of standing-room tickets available each night for the remainder of the season, that means most people - there is a consolation: this Hedda is horrible, and Blanchett's performance is terrible. Horrible in the sense that, 114 years after it was written, Henrik Ibsen's play, about the attempts of a general's daughter to transcend her loveless marriage to a feckless history professor, is as misanthropic as ever. And terrible, in that Blanchett's performance inspires awe from the moment she first rises from her sofa to stretch, as smooth and svelte...
...Caribbean and southeast Asia, while seven of the England squad have roots in Britain's former colonies. But while the colonial era may explain the makeup of those national teams, more contemporary patterns of migration are at work in Sweden, whose strike force consists of the half-Cabo Verdian Henrik Larsson, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, whose origins are Bosnian-Croat...
...white hoops. What could it possibly mean to Rangers' Georgian striker Shota Arveladze when those cheering his team on against Celtic are singing "We're up to our knees in Fenian blood!" ? And what passions does an IRA anthem stir in the heart of Celtic's favorite forward, Henrik Larsson, whose mother is Swedish and whose father hails from the West African island of Cabo Verde? Once, Rangers only signed Protestant players; today, like Celtic, they've followed the trend of shopping in soccer's global labor market in order to make themselves competitive in the pan-European leagues that...
...Caribbean and southeast Asia, while seven of the England squad have roots in Britain's former colonies. But while the colonial era may explain the makeup of those national teams, more contemporary patterns of migration are at work in Sweden, whose strike force consists of the half-Cabo Verdian Henrik Larsson, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, whose origins are Bosnian-Croat...