Word: jesters
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Country boy. Braggart. Jester. Rebel. Daredevil. Heroic champion athlete. Muhammad Ali symbolizes so much of our unconscious American identity and so much of what it is about us that has universal appeal...
celled before as Gilbert and Sullivan’s tragic jester, Jack Point, but Oussama Zahr ’04 makes it difficult to imagine that the part could have been created for anyone else. With a knack for showing utter despair while flashing a bigger smile than a hopeful at the last punch event, he is the driving center of the most entertaining Gilbert and Sullivan show in recent Harvard memory...
Point already senses that something is wrong. As he is a jester, though, and the audience presumably expects a comic end, it is easy enough for Point to fool himself and the audience that all will work...
...those familiar with the work of Fo, a controversial 75-year-old playwright and political activist, Johan Padan’s unorthodox blend of comedy, tragedy, intimacy and grandeur should come as no surprise. Long hailed as the modern inheritor of a tradition started by the medieval court jester, Fo has made a career of challenging those in authority through comedy that borders on buffoonery...
Never would Fo subjugate his work, though, to the blunt expression of such a moral message—no one knows better than a jester that to preach is to lose one’s audience. His worldview is made clear, rather, by the aesthetic that permeates his work...