Word: performativity
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...where his heroines crossdress in order to be closer to the men they love.Meanwhile, set against these two romances is the production of “Romeo and Juliet” that Tino Cagnotto is directing. His project is to reinstate Shakespeare, who hired street actors to perform his plays, as a playwright for the common people. He declares to Bobo at the onset of his project, “Bobo, I’m going to stage the play in which the Bard taught us to overcome social convention, in which he showed us that the power of love...
...been on the verge though—Wyclef Jean, Jurassic 5, and Snoop Dogg were all scheduled to perform at Harvard, though all would eventually cancel due to poor ticket sales, logistical complications, and other road bumps...
...Five years ago, my friend Yuri Shchekochikhin, a journalist and a member of the Duma "mysteriously" died (most likely poisoned). He ran afoul of politicians and business interests alike and received death threats constantly. Officially, prosecutors said he died of an allergy, but his family was never able to perform an independent analysis of his remains. His case is periodically reopened, but it never goes anywhere...
Groups are also forced to compete for practice space, off-campus gigs, and even songs to perform. The co-ed groups use an online a cappella database to prevent problems that may arise from two groups learning or arranging the same song. Mallory says the database was created about five years ago to help resolve the common dilemma that arises when groups start to overlap in genre and style...
Watching the group perform, he adds, “was like an inside-joke being passed around.” Maybe after all the mockery, a cappella gets the last laugh...