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Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater (HRST) has begun their season with an appropriately light piece, Dale Wasserman's "Man of la Mancha," an upbeat musical retelling of Cervantes' Don Quixote...
Though "Man of la Mancha" might be light, it's hardly simple. One can almost watch the script wander off in pursuit of deep philosophical riddles like "who was really the fool, Don Quixote, or the people that had no illusions?" or "which is really real? Wasserman's imagined Cervantes? Cervantes' imagined Quijano? Quijono's imagined Quixote? The play we are seeing, or the world outside...
Sometimes my main characters are men," he says, "and the script is written from their masculinity--a very testicular movie. But I do prefer to work with women. Maybe that's because when I was young, I was surrounded by strong women, real fighters. This was in La Mancha, a very machista and conservative region. There, the man is a king sitting on his throne. And the women are like the prime minister; they are the ones who govern the house, resolve the problems...
...Person of La Mancha...
...wastes money building pharaonic bridges and highways," says new Mayor Alejandro Rojas Marcos. "But it neglects schools, drug problems and employment." In recent months wildcat strikes shut down Asturias coal mines; an eight-week bus-driver walkout crippled Madrid; Basque steel workers fired homemade rockets at police, and La Mancha farmers blocked the roads with tractors. On May 28, a third of the country's workers joined in a general strike, bringing to 50 million the number of working hours lost to work stoppages, far more than in any other West European nation this year. "This...