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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Premise: A historical drama on Sir Thomas More, the unwilling martyr who was prepared to do everything to save his life except betray his God. Set in the times of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, this is a play on the deep and stirring Shakespearean themes of valor and honor...
What to look for: Definitely director Joe Gfaller's decision to score the play to Carl Orff's lush Carmina Burana. Just as the play revolves around a "confusion between the sacred and profane", the Carmina Burana has some of the most profane lyrics performed to what sounds like medieval church music. Look out too for the inventiveness of new scenes added to give more depth to Henry VIII's court and life. And definitely keep your eye out for the full Tudor costumes and the large and opulent sets, all in the best style of what we might expect...
...Premise: A performance piece, this is a composite of two,never-before performed works, Peggy Phelan's Shattered Skulls and Tony Kushner's The Second Month of Mourning. A play about intense grief, "shaped through the memory during a public display...
...PREMISE: Teenaged Tillie lives at home, where her dysfunctional sister, mother and "Nanny" drive her to escape into a scientific world of gamma rays and cloud chambers. The play has five leading female roles and gives us a candid and amusing picture of how a young girl survives this modern world of borderline insanity and paranoia...
...BUZZ: With so many impressive female actors participating in Harvard student theatre, it is a special treat to have so many brought together to dominate the same stage in a play centered on women. Jump(India Song), Jamie Smith (Much Ado About Nothing), Hanna Stotland (Laughter on the 23rd Floor), Dale Shuger (Androcles and the Lion), and Carrie-Anne DeDeo (The Merchant of Venice) all bring considerable theatre repertoires to their challenging roles...