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...while the public scrutiny drawn to the plight of Harvard’s least-paid employees may have led to improvements in their dealings with the University, Harvard has yet to address many of their more substantive complaints. Workers cite University employment policies, which leave them without pay or unemployment insurance between school years. “The number one issue that we deal with today is the 3 month layoff during the summer,” says Ed Childs, chief steward for the Hotel Employees, Restaurant Employees (HERE) union. “During good times we can find some...
...pulls off a strong performance, especially in the rabbit chase scene, where Lucy, Linus, Charlie and Schroeder write book reports and struggle with procrastination, word counts and literary analysis while Snoopy and Sally chase rabbits. It’s a good sign that the Peanuts gang could understand the plight of a Harvard student. While Charlie might be left saying “good grief” at the end of the day, this production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown put a smile on the face of theater goers...
...Point taken. Well, several days ago you compared this cause to the plight of female soldiers fighting in Iraq. Why did you say that...
Marisol’s reality and her plight serve as a reflection of our own, troubled society in Jose Rivera’s socially-charged, surreal play, Marisol. But the play’s overly broad, sweeping ambition and vision of post-apocalyptic society are never fully realized—and ultimately undermine the strengths of last weekend’s staging at the Loeb Experimental Theater and the accomplishments of an otherwise remarkable cast and crew, ably directed by Rebecca R. Kastleman...
Given the nature of the role, Talaid excels at creating a very human persona with which the audience can readily identify. But ultimately, again as the result of a Rivera’s flawed text, the audience is unable to identify with Marisol’s plight. Despite Thompson’s able portrayal of June, for example, we never appreciate, beyond a symbolic level, the deep emotional connection between the two, or the desperation with which Marisol seeks her out when she is missing—a search that defines the second act and leads to an ambiguous...