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Chartey has been a prefect for three years, writes for Diversity and Distinction, and was president of the Harvard African Students Association his sophomore year. It was through HASA that he realized his drive to perform, “October of freshman year, it just jumped out. I think it has set the precedent for my experience here. There’s always a show,” he laughs. “I need that release or else I’ll burst...
...effacement to his hawkish concern about which of his quotes are and are not on the record add to the package. As does the number of people who fell comfortably into the role of unofficial press agent when asked to describe their close friend. “I think performing on stage helps me to not perform when I’m offstage,” David says, though his responsive facial expressions, unwavering gaze and comedic self-awareness all seem to prove the opposite...
...WEDDING-BELL BLUES: Marriage is a raw deal for women, says Susan Maushart, the author of "Wifework: What Marriage Really Means for Women" (Bloomsbury; March). According to Maushart, whether wives are employed or not, they still perform an astounding share of the physical, emotional, and organizational labor in marriage - everything from housework to "sex work." It's not an accident, she says, that women initiate three-quarters of all divorces. If family life is worth saving, she says, the job description for wives will have to be rewritten. Says blurber Pepper Schwartz, author and Ph.D., "Wifework is a welcome corrective...
...chooses classic texts, from The Arabian Nights to the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West, transforming them with her lyrical, low-tech theatricality, spiced with dollops of dance, mime and performance art. (She typically starts rehearsals with no script, writing it at home as she sees it performed.) Her version of Homer's Odyssey is a 3 1/2-hour epic constructed of chairs, poles, bags of sand and shadow play. In The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci actors perform excerpts from the Renaissance genius's scientific writings while cavorting on a floor-to-ceiling set of wooden cabinets...
...When will you go back? A: When I can perform as a free musician in Afghanistan, I will go?not as a tourist but to live...