Word: opera
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...Liaisons Dangereuses is essentially a soap opera set in late eighteenth-century France: scheming aristocrats with too much time on their hands manipulate their friends and lovers in order to further their agendas of pleasure and revenge. "Liaisons" could easily be nothing more than a frothy, cynical delight, but there is some very deft social commentary at the heart of Christopher Hampton's play. The new production by director Adriana Abdenur '97, which continues this weekend at Agassiz Theater, captures the play's thematic complexity and scathing...
DIED. BERYL REID, 76, British actress who won acclaim in the 1960s role of the lesbian soap-opera star in both the stage and film versions of The Killing of Sister George; in Slough, England...
...enemy distinguished by their Asian ethnicity. She addressed, in personal and general terms, the tension created within personal ideologies when great forces such as state and ethnicity are obscured. Her subjects were not solely rooted in Asian-American culture; she repeatedly emphasized complete multiculturism of all individuals: "Hear the opera... hear the passover... do you want to hear me yodel? Hear the songs we sang against Genghis Khan... Do you want to hear it?" (Tripmaster Monkey...
...circuses around the world the Cirque brain trust finds the most inventive acts, then retools them to fit into director Franco Dragone's grand and elaborate design. Each show is identifiably Cirque, yet as distinct as a new Robert Wilson opera production. Like other Cirque shows, Quidam has a dozen or so main acts. As the featured artists parade the genius of their bodies in stunts of strength and grace, Cirque's menagerie (Edvard Munch's silent screamer, Clive Barker's Pinhead and dozens of other glamorous mutants) capers around them like bit players in an amiable madman's reverie...
...Committee on House Life supported a ban on using house funds for all forms of religious ceremony in the houses. We couldn't disagree more with such a position. The contribution of religious ceremony to house life is certainly no less than that of a coffeehouse, an opera or a drag night. While we hold all of these communal activities (whether art or debauchery) in high esteem, we cannot regard religious observance with a lower degree of honor. Raise the nativity scene. Light the menorah. Celebrate a public Ramadan. Religious students should be encouraged by house masters and the administration...