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...House Friday May 5, 200612:00 PM TGIF: Holyoke Center Outdoor StageHolyoke Center 1:00 PM Fogg Museum Open HouseFogg Art Museum 2:00 PM A Tale of Two CitiesRadcliffe Yard 3:00 PM A Tale of Two CitiesRadcliffe Yard3:30 PM The 2006 Harvard Arts Medal ceremony honoring playwright Christopher Durang ’71Agassiz Theatre A Conversation with Christopher DurangAgassiz Theatre 4:00 PM Timmy’s Big-Top AdventureWinthrop House Junior Common Room5:30 PM Performance/installation-in-progress-in-clay: Rachel Cohen ’95Adams House Art Space7:00 PM Dudley House Film FestivalDudley House Sangeet Leverett House7...
...surrounded by everyone else who stood out their high schools, and you go ‘Huh. Maybe I’m not that special.’”It would seem that the Harvard community has come to disagree with that assessment of the playwright. Durang says he was “very surprised” and “flattered” when John A. Lithgow ’67—who acted in Durang’s 1982 “Beyond Therapy”—called to inform him that he?...
...acted in high school, and pursued it at Harvard until she fell into costuming, assistant directing, and ultimately producing. She learned the ropes of each job informally. Savitsky says she has done everything from visiting a bleak but beautiful island off the coast of Ireland that greatly influenced the playwright of “The Playboy of the Western World” to spending eight hours burning prom dresses for the costumes of prisoners in another play, so that they might look as though they had been “dragged out of the furnace...
...Paul D. Franz ’07 and Alexandra M. Helprin ’07, the Classics Club production boasted not only a primarily student-translated version of the Greek text but also new witticisms and pop culture allusions fitted to the modern day. Aristophanes, or any Greek playwright for that matter, might easily be considered dry entertainment for college students on a weekend night. But the Classics Club stupendously jazzed up the 2500-year-old play and had the audience appreciatively guffawing every other minute. It was the drab gray of the past spray-painted into a florescent, glittery...
...production team of “The Playboy of the Western World” wants you to consider playwright John Millington Synge to be the Irish Shakespeare. Sure, he may have lived and written some 300 years after the Bard himself, but never mind that. According to director Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06, Synge’s “Playboy” overcomes its heavy use of dialect and antiquated setting—early 20th-century Ireland—to achieve a certain universality and applicability, even for modern audiences...