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When a theater production bills itself as an epic, it's usually nothing more than a publicist's bombast. Yet when Robert Wilson's I La Galigo premieres in Singapore on March 12, it will be literally true: the four-hour spectacle of song and dance, mantra and martial arts is based upon a classic of Indonesian literature, an epic poem almost unknown outside the archipelago until now. The poem, also called I La Galigo, survives in thousands of fragmentary manuscripts and was written in an archaic Indonesian language that maybe no more than 50 people today are able...
...Nonetheless, the production has already provoked controversy in Indonesia. One scholar objected to Grauer's abridgment of the epic's plot, although the show's four-hour running time will strike few theatergoers as scandalously brief. Some Indonesian artists are worried that the work's cultural identity, its "Indonesianness," is at risk simply because the show is directed by a Westerner. Kusumaningrum, the principal Indonesian member of the creative team, sees the controversy as evidence of Indonesia's inferiority complex: of a self-deprecating belief that the country's traditional arts are somehow not as worthy as foreign culture...
...were the usual hits (The Overcoat) and misses (Night Letters). The former, a piece of bravura theater-making from Canada, mixes Buster Keaton with Gogol and - after seven years on the festival circuit - purrs like a Rolls-Royce. Letters, the State Theatre Company of South Australia's new four-hour adaptation of Robert Dessaix's intimate novel about a writer's "death" in Venice, looks good but wobbles without a suitably dramatic engine. And with some of the most anticipated works still to come (Bangarra's Unaipon, based on the life of the late Aboriginal inventor; and actor David Gulpilil...
...pleased to read Matthew Glazer’s criticism of the lack of 24-hour universal keycard access (Op-Ed, “Locking Students Out,” March 2). I was, however, disappointed that he failed to mention that undergraduates who live off campus have no keycard access whatsoever, not even for their affiliate house. Although there are only a few students in this position, it is an unfortunate one. The College seems to be suggesting that unless you pay room and board, you are not welcome to participate in College life. Yard universal keycard access...
...about an hour Friday night, Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 was not himself—he was a stripper, a man who reached orgasm through handshakes and a Britney Spears back-up dancer...