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After five days we arrived in "La Paz", the union headquarters in the largest agricultural valley in the world. In the country and in the city, participants in the program learn to organize people around the UFW cause. It is full time work, pays room, board, gas, $10 a week and involves every skill imaginable. However, the only prerequisite for joining is a willingness to commit yourself fully and work hard...
...passion for another. She like Juan touches only images of herself--never her true self. Self-conscious but skeptical, both are trapped in a void. More than an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's familiar tale, Rappaccini's Daughter, now at the Loeb Ex, is a new play by Octavio Paz who grows poetry around the seed of Hawthorne's prose. With Hawthorne compressed and Paz added, the play offers a bounty of interpretive possibilities, some of which this production is able to luxuriate...
...play begins with the Messenger (the only character entirely created by Paz) introducing the modern themes and the action of the play. He identifies himself as "a transparent soul," neither male nor female, old nor young. His poetic commentaries are interspersed throughout the action. Bartlett Collins Naylor as the Messenger makes certain we realize it's poetry he's speaking. He accentuates every word, each syllable of "exultation" is distinct...
...distracts partially because of the acting and staging, partially because of the play itself. Rappaccini's Daughter is very much a play for the ear. The emphasis is on language rather than dramatic development. The play was translated by the production staff with the help of Mr. Paz. Although the English may not be as lush as the original Spanish, the translation is quite smooth except for a few howlers. It's a much happier genesis than any Dr. Rappaccini ever attended...
Hawthorne's plot from Rappaccini's Daughter grows into Octavio Paz' own fantasy and philosophy at the Ex March 24-26. Director Antonio Dajer has talked over the play with Paz himself who is currently on leave from Harvard. Dajer '78, will be translating the work himself...