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...seen Macbeth, but not like this. In fact, this adaptation of Macbeth performed by British theater group Punchdrunk operates on the premise that we can’t see it all. Set in an abandoned schoolhouse in Brookline, the story of Macbeth unfolds in every part of the building, leaving you running to catch up with the Hitchcock-esque mystery. Yes, the show is in Brookline. You’ll have to take the T. Maybe even walk a little! Wear comfortable shoes...
Each October, when Americans celebrate Columbus Day, they celebrate Christopher Columbus’s 1492 “discovery” of North America, a continent already home to hundreds of thousands of indigenous inhabitants. In other words, to celebrate Columbus Day is in part to assume that American history, a trajectory that stretches back for centuries before 1492, begins with the presence of white European explorers—an assumption that smacks of an outmoded, Eurocentric worldview. And while the holiday’s national importance has thankfully diminished in recent decades, the trend away from celebrating Columbus...
...while a nominal change of the Columbus Day holiday is a start, this country can do much more to challenge the unfortunately widespread Eurocentric approach to American history. For the most part, today’s American children and high-school students are taught that American history begins in 1607, the year the Jamestown settlement was established. Such an approach to American history is as inappropriate as it is inaccurate. And although replacing Columbus Day would certainly be a step in the right direction, we hope that the change would inspire a stronger commitment to teaching the true trajectory...
This was the part where my voice recorder ran out of battery, and it was also near the end of my questions. So I started to wrap it up and closed my notebook...
This was the part where he told me, all in the calmest and most collected voice, that the team had had a Crimson reporter who’d come to a tournament before. He embarrassed the team and they had to spend the next month explaining to other teams how they were not assholes, it was just the reporter who was an asshole. Perkins asked me what my agenda was, and at some point I asked what he was insinuating. When he left, he lifted his straw hat off the table, put it on his head, and said simply...