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...ghost of a lost love, the dissonance of a musical trio, and the frustrations of a writer seeking to put his passion into words were all captured yesterday in the opening night of three usually neglected works by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. The three plays, originally produced in April 2006 to commemorate what would have been Beckett’s 100th birthday, were part of the inaugural series for the New College Theatre. Robert Scanlan, a professor of theater who knew Beckett personally, directed the plays, and Martin Pearlman, founder and conductor of the Boston Baroque, composed the music...
...international trend necessitates that neither Harvard nor Yale has had many literature Nobel laureates, but Harvard’s 1.5 still beats Yale’s singleton. Yale has 1930 prize-winner Sinclair Lewis, while Harvard alum T.S. Eliot ’09 won in 1948. Playwright Eugene O’Neill, who took the honors in 1936, attended Harvard for one year before dropping out. Both schools fare far better in terms of Pulitzer prize-winning alumni. Two-time Pulitzer winner David McCullough was an English major at Yale. (He won for “Truman?...
Shakespeare is so pervasive, so entrenched in Western cultural life, that his plays can sometimes be overzealously adopted by directors looking for a blank slate. Ophelia the flapper! Macbeth the CEO! King Henry IV the Quarterback! Perhaps no playwright is more frequently a victim of hyper-ambitious, conceptual updates...
Middleton was as much a journalist as a playwright, documenting the politics and society of 17th century London. He saw it transformed by immigration, and witnessed the rise of a middle class struggling to cling on to morality amid a flood of new wealth. "It was a time of incredible ferment and change, both economic and intellectual," says Laurence Boswell, who directed Women, Beware Women for Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company last year. "Middleton was freaked out and excited...
...play, produced by Kelley D. McKinney ’09 and Davone J. Tines ’09, is a romantic comedy about a day in the life of four mental patients, their nurse, and one patient’s husband. Watching it, one can almost see the playwright standing in the wings, waiting for the audience to realize the story’s central message: the characters’ respective neuroses may make their romantic entanglements more absurd, but their thought processes are exactly like those of any “normal” person...