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Auditions for Deathtrap were held last week as part of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s Common Casting process. Many actors chose Deathtrap out of the nearly 20 shows available for auditions because of the witty script and captivating plot, said Thomas P. Lowe ’05, who will play a lead role in the show...
...series like Providence--getting to improve your childhood and thus becoming a different and better person as an adult. Do Over plays it more broadly, with plenty of moderately funny pop-culture references. That Was Then plays down the hairstyle humor, opting for a (fairly muddled) romantic-comedy plot in which the hero fights his brother for his high school love. "It's not a nostalgia show about the '80s," says co-creator Jeremy Miller. "It's a nostalgia show about high school...
...Indonesia's inaction contrasts starkly with its neighbors' aggressive antiterror measures. Singapore has repeatedly displayed its resolve, not only through its announcement last week but through the arrests of 15 alleged terrorists earlier in the year for a plot to bomb U.S. interests there (masterminded, says Singapore, by Ba'asyir). Local authorities say the fresh detentions foiled plans to target a range of facilities in the republic, including the Defense Ministry, Changi International Airport, water pipelines and communications installations. In the Philippines, meanwhile, officials last week apprehended four Indonesians, one of whom they accuse of being linked...
...Zhang braved a Siberian winter to cross the frozen Heilongjiang River and seek refuge in the Soviet Union, nearly dying of exposure. His experience with the KGB, which denied the fugitive entry into their crumbling empire but allowed him to sneak back into China undetected, is a plot twist worthy of a thriller. Much of Escape from China reads like a novel, with the author as the resourceful hero whose struggle epitomizes the fate of the individual under totalitarianism. That Zhang has come to see his journey in religious terms?he was born again in the snows of Siberia...
...Obvious Rule No. 11: Never sell your characters short in order to meet the requirements of a gag or even the plot." Here, Ayckbourn occasionally breaks his own rule. Usually, it's the production trying too hard, as when GamePlan's putative prostitute is confronted with a client who won't stop talking. The fact that her first trick is a crushing bore is funny, but the ludicrous poses she strikes to lure...