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PERSEPHONE THOUGH LONGR AND MORE SERIOUS, does nothing to dissipate the warm cloud of pleasure left by the appetizer. In this piece the soloists are replaced by a chorus flustered around the piano; more interesting Persephone herself speaks as she walks through her part, though the dancing nymphs around her remain silent. Unfolding on the same simple, two tiered black framework as Renard; the scene for Persephone shifts only through the lighting which poignantly points the difference between Heaven and Hell...
Club Casablanca (40 Brattle St.): From Mexico to North Africa, Casa B's is probably where Rick--that's Humphrey Bogart, for the uninitiated--would hang out if he came to Cambridge. Nowhere she will you lie back in a cushioned wicker chair, whiskey in hand, with a piano player tickling the ivories in the corner of the room. His name isn't Sam, but he'll play it again and again if you want...
...level of the uninhibited acting is consistently excellent and the the show's tinning runs smoothly with live piano music as the transitions between the scenes. The costumes contribute to the quality in the level of acting with each actor wearing the same sexless outfit of lavender courderoy. Matching the clever costumes are the creative sets which use different props like toilet seats as chairs and chalkboards as windows using the chalk to draw the blinds...
...life events were coming together while I was writing it: I was planning my wedding in June and looking for a co-op apartment." So, in addition to the squash games, Wallis tried to pace herself and took "aesthetic breaks. I bought flowers for my desk and played the piano before coming to work." The result was smoother sailing. "After all," she says, "I wouldn't want to fall apart while writing about stress...
...country. In Surrey the silver-haired scholar hugged a black woman, was cheered by some unemployed youths and pledged to work for an end to fox hunting while cuddling a baby fox. His deputy, Denis Healey, 65, was just as busy. In York he sat down at a piano to play a funeral march-"to remind everyone where Thatcher is taking us"-and then took up the chorus of an old American barroom tune, Hard Hearted Hannah, "a girl from Savannah who pours water on a drowning man." Quipped Healey: "That is just what she is doing to the British...