Word: ophelia
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...impression. Yet all of the actors give the sense that there are unspoken depths to their characters—a crucial skill, considering that their characters have far more space to themselves in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Polonius (Tim M. Marrinan ’06) is suitably obsequious, Ophelia (Andrea M. Spillmann ’07) is weepy when weepiness is called for, and a moody Hamlet (Jeremy R. Funke ’04-’05) stands around muttering soliloquies too quietly for our heroes to hear...
...eyes at friends rushing to get their M.R.S. degrees. When she falls for Eddie (Luke Mably), a rakish-but-sweet exchange student who turns out to be Danish Crown Prince Edvard, the prospect of becoming queen upsets her dreams of working for Doctors Without Borders. (Stiles, who played Ophelia in the 2000 film Hamlet, should know that dating the prince of Denmark can be a pain.) "The Cinderella story has always frustrated me," Stiles says. "What I like about The Prince & Me is that my character is a lot more active and is ready to live a life by herself...
...Indigo Girls are still rockin’ the same old “stacking sandbags gainst the river of your trouble” lyrics and soul-warming harmonies on All That We Let In, the new record that’s got even better album art than Swamp Ophelia. For the most part, this album is exactly what you’d expect from the Indigo Girls; Amy Ray and Emily Saliers pass the baton back and forth like pros, belting it out or backing each other up like true friends. That?...
DIED. UTA HAGEN, 84, revered stage actress and acting teacher best known for originating the role of Martha in Edward Albee's 1962 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; in New York City. Born in Germany and raised in Wisconsin, she began her career in London in 1937 as Ophelia in Eva Le Gallienne's Hamlet. She later won acclaim for her Nina in Chekhov's The Seagull and as the wife of an alcoholic actor in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl. In the late 1940s, she and her second husband, actor-director Herbert Berghof, started HB Studio, a widely...
Though previous books like Reviving Ophelia have worked at exploring female adolescence in all its messy glory, Levine’s is the first to focus specifically on the subculture of Hasidic girls. Like the Lubavitchers who believe that all thoughts and acts are worthy of attention due to its ability to bring the Messiah closer, Levine believes that cultures and people who are “different” from the mainstream of American life are worthy of study...