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...Antigone.” Harvard students get enough of dormcest and leaves of absence, much less incest and exile. Sophocles may have been the most important Greek playwright ever, but this is one case where “sex, lies, and patricide” is really pushing it. 4. “The Father.” See #1. Never forget: One Strindberg play is enough Swedish depression, paranoia, and angst for a generation of Harvard students, and “Pelican” already ran last semester. 3. “Death of a Salesman...
...time in cars around campus, but the upcoming production of Neil LaBute’s play “Autobahn” in the Loeb Experimental Theatre promises to thrust them into the midst of the visceral interactions of daily commutes in Chevrolets, Mercedes, and old Pintos. Contemporary playwright, film director, and screenwriter LaBute is well known for his stark portrayals of human relationships, and “Autobahn”—which runs Dec. 8-10 and 13-16—is no exception. Though the interactions between LaBute’s characters are almost always...
...Everett Scott, as the actor, doesn't for one moment convince us he's any manner of Hollywood star: no bearing, no ego, so nervous about his sexual encounter that he might be a middle-aged Neil Simon garment worker having his first fling with a hooker. The playwright (and director, Scott Ellis) want to be both naughty and cool. There's utterly no passion, not to mention plausibility, in this relationship. (Deadpan exchange: "Let's get started." "OK, I'll get aroused...
...Known as "The Man Without A Face" - for many years, Western spy agencies did not even have a photo of him - Wolf was the son of a German Jewish doctor and playwright, a Communist who had to flee Hitler and ended up in Moscow. He attended elite party schools in the Soviet Union, was trained for undercover work, returned to Germany as a journalist covering the Nuremburg trials and joined the East Germany spy service at its inception. In 1952, because his pungent Stalinism convinced Russian leaders of his loyalty, he became its chief - and brilliant...
...footsteps and become the next free radical feminist thinker. However, her plans become complicated when a dentist falls in love with the daughter and the dentist’s landlord happens to be the childrens’ father. “The exposure to the most influential British playwright of the 20th century is an opportunity you can’t miss. Shaw in performance is a really special treat and we’ve made it 10 times more fun than it is just on the page,” Birnbaum says. Though “You Never...