Word: lydia
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...Games of Love and Chance” is about the teenage Abdelkrim, or Krimo, from the Paris suburbs who becomes infatuated with his gamine classmate Lydia. Krimo joins the school production of Marivaux’s “Games of Love and Chance” to play the counterpart of Lydia’s character. However, Krimo fails to go beyond merely murmuring the lines, since, as a matter of fact, he has never read a single book in his life not to mention 18th-century classical theatre. Kechiche’s camera observes the unfolding of the story...
Portraying a relatable human story through the vehicle of a minority family, without overly racializing the content, is a delicate and difficult task. Lydia R. Diamond’s “Stick Fly”—a Huntington Theatre Company production which plays through March 28 at the Boston Center for the Arts’s Calderwood Pavilion—rises gracefully to the challenge. The show provides a snapshot of the wealthy, African-American LeVay family as it starts to head over the edge of an unseen precipice, while wittily examining class, race, gender roles...
Haitians who've had to deal with the loss of their family members and their homes, now find fellow citizens profiting from their pain. But the hunger on the streets is growing. In the suburban city of Petion-ville, protesters wove in between cars chanting against the mayor Claire Lydia Parent. The demonstrators allege that Parent too is charging them 250 Gourdes for coupons for bags of rice. "She's keeping it in the depot so when elections come around she'll give the rice away. Then people will vote for her," says Danka Tranzil, 17. (Mayor Parent has said...