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...16th novel, Master Georgie (Carroll & Graf; 190 pages; $21), a deadpan tale of secrets and lies set in Liverpool and the Crimea in the 1840s and '50s. The story is told in alternating chapters by three characters: Myrtle, an orphan, in love with George, a doctor and amateur photographer; Pompey Jones, George's ambitious photo assistant and sometime lover; and Dr. Potter, an eccentric geologist. Each in the grip of a private obsession, the three follow George to the Crimean War--the first conflict to be covered by photographers--and all three witness scenes of horror that no camera could...
...from cholera and in battle all around them, the scene becomes surreal. At one point a soldier shows up with his ear blown off. "He kept shaking our hands in turn and saying how happy he was to meet us...the blood flying in all directions as he pumped," Pompey Jones recalls. "Then he dropped dead...
...Forum Affair. Through March 22. The Hasty Pudding's 146th production. Set in the decadence of Ancient Rome and the passion-drenched sands of Egypt, the show features love, death and lust for power as the throne of the Roman Emperor, Pompey Circumstance, hangs in the balance. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m. $20, $28. Tickets are available at the Hasty Pudding box office...
...Forum Affair. Through March 22. The Hasty Pudding's 146th production. Set in the decadence of Ancient Rome and the Passion-drenched sands of Egypt, the show feature love, death and lust for power as the throne of the Roman Emperor, Pompey Circumstance, hangs in the balance. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m. $20, $28. Tickets are available at the Hasty Pudding box office...
...There's Pompey's conservative sister, Electra publicans (Aaron R. Zelman '95), and her Yale-educated slave Lucinda Lipps (J.P. Anderson '95). (She's Yale-educated, and she's a slave Get it?) They scheme to get Electra's airheaded daughter, Caesonia Phase (Adam D. Feldman '95) interested in the would be successor to the Roman throne, nerdy Nero Sited (Thomas F. Giordano...