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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flames defenseman Neil Sheehy '83 didn't miss the chance to see his old teammates in action, and he spoke highly of the Harvard net-minder...
...THIS STORY OF MORAL CORRUPTION, Miss Jesse's part is secondary to Quint's, but nonetheless terrifying. Doomed to suffering and shame for having yielded to Quint's powers, she returns to seek revenge. Kierstine seems to have really thought about the character of this former governess. She attracts our sympathy as well as our disgust. She is the inexcusably wronged woman as well as the relentlessly dangerous ghost. Adding to her role, Kierstine uses her arms and head in an almost drugged somnolence. Both' possessed and possessing, she succeeds in mesmerizing not only young Flora, but the audience...
...blood-red sky. Furtive figures frantically seek to escape this depressing darkness, a darkness that almost becomes a metaphor for Quint's malevolence. Clever special effects make the two ghosts seem especially spectral. While the evil former man-servant appears and vanishes high at the top of the tower. Miss Jessel is lit from below, a technique which illuminates her grotesquels painted face and casts an abnormally immense black shadow on the ceiling of the room. We are continually reminded by the lighting, as well as the words of the opera, that this is a place in which "the ceremony...
Britten's score is particularly responsive to the emotions that run through the core of James' story. We not only hear Miss Jessel verbally bemoaning her fate, but also the heavy constant tone of suffering in the music. Even more ambiguous feelings come through, such as the rather naive disbelief that characterizes the housekeeper Mrs Grose (Nan Hughes). Hughes portrays Mrs. Grose as a harried, trusting woman whose gentle nature cannot comprehend the horror that surrounds her. She is a striking example of the professionalism, both in singing and acting, that marks the entire cast of this opera...
...People say repeatedly, 'This is the last game, I've got to go," says Eric Jacobsen '86. He adds that addicts will miss classes or stay up until 4 a.m., not realizing how much time has elapsed...