Word: manors
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...sometimes there's a noisy kind. At Marian Manor Elementary, one of the participating El Paso schools, a fifth of the teachers quit rather than follow the new plan, which required them to attend meetings in their free time and spend their weekends at workshops. But more often the tensions are subtler tussles over turf and authority. "Now I answer to two bosses, the college and the school district," says Russell Perkins, Rosemont's principal. "And sometimes I just have to tell them not to look over my shoulder...
...numbered scenes in Arcadia are set at an English country manor in the early nineteenth century. The even-numbered scenes take place in the present at the same estate, Sidley Park, where bickering historians attempt to reconstruct the story of what happened in the other scenes. Arcadia is an extended rumination on love, sex, history and entropy that revolves around discussions of Fermat's Last Theorem, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, Byron's poetry and the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism in England. That Arcadia is not exactly an accessible work did not bother the audience...
...theater itself offers an ideal setting for the production. Janie Howland's design is such that the Agassiz Theater looks like an extension of her set, which depicts a sitting room in the Sidley Park manor house. In the 19th-century scenes, 23-year-old tutor Septimus Hodge (Austin Guest '04) instructs 13-year-old Thomasina Coverly (Sarah Thomas '04), the precocious daughter of Lord and Lady Croom, the aristocrats who own Sidley Park. Jana Howland's costume design evokes the complexity of period dress through relatively simple outfits, which seem credible but not overwrought. In the present-day scenes...
...would randomly turn on and off and noisy scenery changes during quiet moments of the show. As in The Wizard of Oz, color and lighting enhance mood. Like Dorothy opening the door of her black-and-white house to enter a world full of color, the inhabitants of Misselthwaite Manor witness a change from gray gloom to vibrant whites, reds, yellows, and blues when Mary tends Lilly's dormant garden and nurtures it back to life. This transition, however, does not take place until the last scene, and the audience-which previously has been squinting through the darkness to separate...
...with the perfect play is invariably the problem directors and actors face when they sit down at those initial pre-production meetings prior to mounting The Importance of Being Earnest. Written in the late 1890s, the play fixates on the manners and morals of the pretentious and the manor-born, skewering all with some of Oscar Wilde's finest collections of epigrams and nasty asides. Spit out, stated dramatically or muttered politely, his words are most recently brought to life in a joyous flurry of understated malice by the cast at the Works Theater in Somerville. The final production...