Word: intention
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Particularly confusingly, this production of Lysistrata projects a dual perspective--it remains unclear whether it endeavors to recreate Aristophanes' bawdy farce, or tries actually to parody the original intent of the classic...
This disconcerting tension about its conceptual intent is reinforced, for example, at the conclusion of the play, when the "statue of recondiliation," traditionally a statue of a beautiful woman, appears as a grotesque caricature of a pregnant woman. Also, the translation's inclusions of such modern-day refrences as Hamlet's "something's rotten in the state of Athens?" heightens the sense that the production features a significant internal critique...
...into the social roots of humor: part of the parody's kick, he says, is its explosion of Orbison's unlikely premise of sidewalk romance, which the judge notes, ". . . ignores the ugliness of street life and the debasement that it signifies." Rebutting the argument that the ditty's commercial intent moots its artistic value, Souter playfully enlists Samuel Johnson: " 'No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.' " Finally, the court's Latin scholar scores head-banger points for using the phrase "opening bass riff" without quotation marks...
...more roles for women (commendable as such a goal might be). The implication surely is that a female version would express something that the male version could not, that females possess a unique voice that would make a reworking of the play subtly different. If such was Simon's intent, then he was doomed to failure; if such was not his intent, it is hard to see what the point of this exercise...
...students, led by Daniel W. Hart '95, said they wanted to form the Harvard Enterprise Society because the Business Club's outgoing director was allegedly intent upon selecting this year's officers without holding an election...