Word: ophelia
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Then there was Hamlet. Opening night of the Royal National Theatre’s United States tour brought a full house to the Wilbur Theatre; unfortunately, it brought a quarter of them 15 minutes late. In the middle of Laertes’ first scene with Ophelia, the herd of Americans came traipsing down the aisles like so many elephants, linked trunk to tail. After the requisite bit of coat rustling, umbrella shaking, coughs, sniffs and general settling into seats, the performance was allowed to continue...
...sure we can all see the white-tailed deer hiding in the trees. "Motts are what they call those groupings of oaks," notes Bush. He catalogs every stream crossing, every canyon and the precise number of cows, bulls and calves that he lets graze on his land. There's Ophelia, the gray Texas Longhorn his staff gave him as a pres- ent. Some of the gray oak trees look like old villagers, wrinkled and stooped, as if they have fought hard for every inch of growth...
...this acceleration of growing up comes precisely at a time when life should be less about Eminem and more about M&M's. Between 8 and 12, explains psychologist Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia, a best-selling book on female adolescence, girls are in the so-called latency period, when they turn their backs on boys and bond with their peers--other girls. "Theoretically, it's a time when they're really gathering a lot of strength--they're doing well in sports, they're investigating the world, they're confident learners, and they're confident socially. They...
...boys may respond, there is plenty of informed speculation--gleaned partly from clinical impressions--that at least some boys may be startled and perhaps even freaked out by the sexual changes that their precocious female classmates have begun to evince. "Remember junior high," says Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia, "where the girls were all five inches taller than the boys and starting to have some sexual development, while the boys had squeaky voices and looked totally young? That difference is further underscored if girls start having puberty...
...lead to an unprofessional exchange of blows. Lines like "What a f---ing idiot!" are to be uttered offstage, after the close of business, so to speak - in the way that Hamlet, stopping at a bar for a drink after the play, might confide to a friend that Ophelia has bad breath. The words are for private consumption. They must not be part of the performance...