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...Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who began reviewing the band's halftime shows to eliminate what he termed "vulgarity" and "in-group jokes." Under the new policy. Epps made small changes in the script the band followed during halftime of the Cornell game, changing a quote from "Macbeth...
...free expression apparent in its efforts this year--through Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III--to censor the halftime performances of the Harvard Band. Complaining that the performances did not "communicate across generations," Epps began screening the scripts. Phrases deleted under this supervision included a line from Macbeth...
...learning from one another rather than aiming for polished theatrical products. In the process, they churned through an astounding amount of material, including an adaptation of a vampire novel, a reworking of the fall's mainstage Yerma, and the season's culmination simultaneous and interconnecting performances of Medea, Macbeth and Cinderella on the same stage...
Even more startling, from a theoretical point of view, were the implications of the Kronauer Group's experience and especially of their culminating show this spring, Medea Macbeth Cinderella. Taking three familiar pieces of theater with vastly different conventions--a Euripides, a Shakespeare and a faintly dippy modern musical--he placed the actors for all three in an arena, they rushed around, colliding and mingling and doggedly pursuing their separate stories Soliloquies lined up with Greek choral laments and song lyrics. There were enough theoretical implications to set anyone afloat...
...Markey isn't as eloquent as Macbeth, but when he ignominiously quit the senate race last week, he screwed up Elizabethan style, with nobody to blame but himself. That's why in the past week and a half the local press has done nothing but rain down moralistic criticism--swatting Markey's hand and swiping his but at every opportunity. "Markey's Retreat," is the title of this week's Phoenix meditation, in which Markey is condemned as a "suitor scorned--actually not even scorned, but merely afraid of being scorned..." The Boston Herald's headline let the survivors speak...