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...said he recognized that the playwright used the terms symbolically, but felt they could be taken more literally...
After last week’s production of Euripides’ The Trojan Women at the Agassiz Theater, this weekend The Harvard Classical Club put that venerable playwright on the stage wearing a black beret, sniffing a rose and declaring “iamb the man!” while kicking Aeschylus in the groin in their production of Aristophanes’ The Frogs...
...drama, who is distraught by the horrible quality of tragedies that are being written. With the help of his comic slave Xanthias (Joe L. Dimento ’05) and the soup-obsessed Hercules (Brandon J. Smith ’04) he descends into hell to find a better playwright. In the second half, two dead poets, the tweedy old-fashioned Aeschylus (Benet Magnuson ’06) and the Bohemian Euripides (Alex H. Salskov ’04), face off in a battle of the bards to determine who is more worthy to return to the surface...
...playwright himself believes that this lack of clarity is essential to the play’s purpose, so much so that he refused the original director’s request to add several lines to clarify Stanley’s situation. According to the program, the ART’s artistic directors feel that this ambiguity makes the play more accessible, leaving it open to a variety of psychological, political or even religious interpretations. While this may be true once the audience leaves the theater, it makes the experience of watching The Birthday Party frustrating as one tries to make...
Currently playing in an extended run through Sunday is Roberto Zucco, the brainchild of director Ben D. Margo ’03 -’04. Based on a British translation of French playwright Bernard-Marie Koltes’ final work, Zucco tells the story of its titular serial killer who murders, burgles and rapes apparently without motive. John C. Dewis stars as the enigmatic Zucco, alongside Sara L. Bartel ’06 in the female lead role of Girl...