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...Scarlet Letter.” Running this past weekend at the Agassiz Theatre, the play explores the modern stigma of being a mother of illegitimate children.Strict Puritan mores are replaced with the doctrine of personal responsibility and the disdain for welfare mothers. Hester Prynne is transformed into Hester La Negrita (Jenné B. Ayers ’10), an illiterate homeless mother of five who lives on the fringes of society, under a bridge. Instead of being forced to wear a scarlet “A,” she continually writes the letter...
...Andorra every weekend, causing monumental traffic jams along the narrow winding roads that lead to the tax haven. Once picturesque towns and villages have been despoiled by advertising. Posters of Johnnie Walker and the Marlboro man adorn the walls of roadside buildings, and billboards displaying the Ron Negrita girl under a palm tree contrast improbably with the splen did white peaks of the Pyrenees beyond. Cutting through the capital city is a gaudy strip of neon, glass and concrete, featuring gilt-balconied hotels, high-rise department stores and a six-story cemetery with burial vaults and showcases of floral tributes...
...second side the disco-style is given another try. "Hey Negrita" fares somewhat better, drawing from Latin and Carribean rhythms which add spice to the otherwise rather mechanical beat. Jagger's voice, strained to cracking and loaded with insinuation, narrates this first person tale of a poor man's encounter with a South American whore. "One last dollar/I've got my pride/I'll cut your balls and I'll tan your hide." Subtle? The Stones always did have a way with words. But like "Hot Stuff," "Hey Negrita" suffers at the hands of too much repetition...
Considerably younger than this group of seven is Henry de Leon (b. 1945), who has the only sculpture and photography in the exhibit. There is an untitled limestone piece done when he was a junior at Brandeis, and a recent wood sculpture called "Negrita." Both of these are semi-abstract, and beautifully rhythmed with smooth following curves. His twenty photographs range from middling to excellent. Particularly effective is the juxtaposition of an old Negro woman with moles, ten-thousand wrinkles and white hair, and a laughing young boy in swimming trunks...
...male named Tambour, born of the same parents as Negrita, was found in Port-au-Prince and rushed to the First Lady. Soon he was well settled into his late sister's old routine. He was a disappointment in only one way; whereas Negrita was born black and later turned silver, Tambour remained all black...