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There is enough ambiguity in Jean Cocteau's writing to let you fill in your own meanings. Still, a play's last moment shouldn't be entirely disjointed. The Loeb Ex version is good fun, but don't lose track of the script's peculiar artifice if your lover drags you down there...
...collective response from the Harvard Employees Organizing Committee to the recent dismissal of Robin Sing. Because she was fired within her three-month probationary period of employment, Ms. Sing was denied access to the normal grievance produces accorded regular salaried employees at Harvard University. Her supervisor at the Loeb Library, Caroline Shillaber, fired Ms. Sing without warning after 11/2 days' absence (one day with permission and 1/2 day for an emergency concerning her child). According to Ms. Sing's sworn affidavit. Shillaber fired her with the explanation that she "foresaw a pattern of absence because she [Ms. Sing...
Only after Harvard learned that Ms. Sing planned to take legal action with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAS), did a four-page, single spaced memorandum appear detailing alleged poor work performance. While the MCAD's investigation proceeded, a staff meeting was called at the Loeb Library to forbid discussion on the part of the staff and employees with anyone outside the University...
...tender conclusion. The play is about two characters in search of a language and contains the most brilliant wordplay on the English stage (always rich in wordplay) since Shakespeare or at least Wilde. The "Questions" scene ("None sequitur. Thirty love.") is alone worth the price of admission. At the Loeb mainstage tonight, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday as well as next weekend...
Orphous at the Loeb Ex Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Joan Cocteau's best, perhaps, Reviewed in today's Crimson...