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...Emily Dickinson's poems. In a one woman show, Margaret Wolfit, a British actress, conjures up the characters in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, focusing on the intelligent woman's predicament in Victorian society. Performances are tonight, Friday and Saturday at 8 pm on the Loeb Mainstage. Tickets...
Once upon a time you might have thought that Sophocles wrote Antigone to describe the peculiar burial practices in ancient Greece. But in the new version of the play, The Passion of Antigona Perez by Puerto Rican Luis Rafel Sanchez, which director Vincente Castro brings to the Loeb Mainstage March 3-6 and 9-12, the determined girl who wants to bury her dead brother becomes a symbol for all those who resist repressive regimes. Creon appears not just as a stubborn ruler but as the biggest, most demanding dictator of them all. Even the Greek chorus has a place...
...opening minutes of the play, introduces the characters and soliloquizes on the main themes. And don't worry that the vision of Napoleon's troops setting fire to St. Petersburg as the Russian troops fight and die in the snow will break the back of even the Loeb's large space and advanced technical equipment. Ayrton has been conducting a production seminar for the entire cast in order to prevent any catastrophes. With this class and the expertise of professionals Bill Rynders designing the set and Marcia Dixcy Carr the costumes, this version should succeed in compressing the agonies...
...scandalous than herself. According to director Peter Sellars '80 Facade," An Entertainment' the sparkling musical parodies which William Walton wrote for Sitwell' poetry has "no plot, no characters." Then why did Sellars decide to stage this extravagant new production of poetry puppetry, mime and dance and why did the Loeb (whoever is actually running it these days) decide to let him? "It was just irresistible," Sellars says. At its first performance in 1923, Facade causes such a ruckus that the fire department was called in. It's not yet certain that when the "entertainment is performed April...
What Zefferelli and Prokoviev did to Romeo and Juliet, Vincenzo Bellini did earlier. Bellini, an Italian composer of the early nineteenth century, found arias where Prokoviev later discovered pas de deux. The opera, I Capuletti e I Montecchi, according to Loeb p.r., is marked by "intriguing departures from the original plot to produce a reinterpretation of Shakespeare's timeless theme," The Capulets and Montagues return to their original Italian from Shakespeare's English in the early May production at the Loeb...