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...clearly drawing on his experience as one of the leading figures of Eastern Europe's democratic transformation. Czech audiences are being offered a rare perspective on a pivotal period in eastern European history. So far, they appear to like what they see. The 71-year-old playwright attended the opening with his actress wife (who was originally cast in the play but dropped out at the last moment) and received a 10-minute standing ovation. He thanked the audience quickly and then rushed off stage...
...Ripper." Until the brutal slayings ended some two and a half years later, sensationalistic coverage of the Ripper was relentless, his exploits recounted by reporters and artists in a manner that exposed the squalor of Whitechapel to a fascinated audience - and shaped London's perception of the East End. Playwright George Bernard Shaw once remarked that Jack the Ripper did more than any social reformer to draw attention to the intolerable conditions of Whitechapel's slums...
...liked to talk during sex, his longtime mistress Carole Mallory said in a revealing interview with The Crimson yesterday.Three weeks ago, Harvard received Mallory’s collection of materials documenting her nine-year relationship with Mailer, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, journalist, and playwright who died last November.“I’m an important part of his life,” Mallory said. “I was. I am.” The former model and actress said she sent the archive to Harvard to recognize her significance in the author?...
...knocking someone up, and a complicated relationship between brothers.” That’s according to the theatrical production’s director, Zachary H. Taxin ’09. The original staging of “Adelphoe”—originally written by Greek playwright Menander and adapted by Roman scribe Terence—was, perhaps, not so fun: it was first performed 2000 years ago during a funeral. Taxin insists that the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of “Adelphoe,” however, is “hilarious...
...Rodriguez explains that the play can seem purely comedic despite its more philosophical implications.“You have to see the meaning underneath, but maybe for many people it’s just like playing, pure playfulness and not something serious.”Rodriguez, a playwright and director who currently teaches an introductory Spanish course at the college while completing her doctoral work, first encountered “Tres sombreros de copa” as assigned reading in high school. But she is quick to note that Mihura’s play fast became far more than...