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...think of the playwright as something of an litist. Ever since his sensational stage debut in 1967 with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead--his absurdist riff on a pair of minor characters in Hamlet--Stoppard has become almost a genre unto himself, taking intellectual, often abstruse subject matter and turning it into challenging yet playful drama. His game, frequently, is the oddball juxtaposition: moral philosophy and gymnastics (Jumpers); Fermat's last theorem and Byron's love poetry (Arcadia); James Joyce and Vladimir Lenin (Travesties). "Tom said to me once that he decides on one play, and then shortly after...
Hairless breeds never win the Westminster Dog Show. And they no longer win the dog-and-pony show that is a presidential election, no matter what surveys say about Giuliani as the Republican front runner. Forget the Roper polls. I trust the barber poles...
...movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony into the explosive and majestic opening of the final movement.Despite the fact that only half of the orchestra was present, the orchestra still sounded magical.In a way, Yannatos is a microcosm of the HRO—darting into the future, no matter what burdens the past has put upon him.“I’m not sure how many more years I’ll be here,” says Yannatos. “But I’m still here and I still intend to be here...
...Training-wise, a lot of us have improved this year,” Olson said. That improvement will be crucial over the next two races, as Harvard will compete in its most critical meets of the season, Heptagonals tomorrow and NCAA Regionals on Nov. 10. “No matter what the outcome of the next two races is, this season can be nothing short of successful,” Saretsky said. But for now, the team remains focused on the race at hand. “We have been increasing the intensity of our workouts,” Saretsky...
...written five full-length plays and multiple short plays, all of which have been produced.‘SENSE OF VERTIGO’Evans says the writing process is one that she almost doesn’t control.“I’ve found that the subject matter chooses us. Playwrights tend to have things that obsess them whether try acknowledge them to or not,” says Evans. “My plays all deal with the collision of the interior and poetic world with external world of politics. They mix a kind of poetic intensity...