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...campaigning for a congressional seat in the nearby province of Sarangani in the May 10 elections - won't be so easy. His opponent this time is Roy Chiongbian, a U.S.-educated businessman from a wealthy and well-entrenched political dynasty. "Pacquiao is up for a very tough fight," says Prospero de Vera, professor of public administration at the University of the Philippines. "Sarangani is relatively poor and local politics is very traditional. The Chiongbians have had a stranglehold on power for decades." (See pictures of the rise of Manny Pacquiao...
...charms are all o’erthrown, / And what strenth I have’s mine own, / Which is most faint…” Prospero opens his epilogue to “The Tempest” with strange and wistful words: his spells are breaking even as he speaks; his return to the mortal world—and to a death that, though outside the comedy’s arc, feels eerily close—is imminent. But Shakespeare’s final play is too full, quakes with too much wonder and life to fall beneath...
...what if Prospero is a deceiver? A usurper? A false sovereign, like Macbeth? Philip Roth’s latest novel, “The Humbling,” suggests the synthesis of these two roles in the book’s protagonist: the aging, once-great stage actor Simon Axler. “He’d lost his magic. The impulse was spent. He’d never failed in the theater, everything he had done had been strong and successful, and then the terrible thing had happened: he couldn’t act,” it begins...
...Multicultural Arts Center (CMAC) that runs through April 13, the latter is very much the answer. But in its efforts to constantly amuse its audience, the production bypasses many of the more serious and deep elements of the play, creating an entertaining but somewhat hollow experience. The story of Prospero (Alvin Epstein), the deposed Duke of Milan who now inhabits a mysterious island, his daughter Miranda (Mara Sidmore), and his servants Ariel (Marianna Bassham) and Calaban (Benjamin Evett) is one of Shakespeare’s most challenging. The play begins with the eponymous storm that causes the shipwreck of Prospero?...
...especially thinking of the poignant scene in which Prospero breaks his staff and drowns his book in the sea, thus relinquishing the magical powers that have made him the ruler of the island. Prospero, who will return to Milan to reclaim power, is too much a scholar and a mystic to really succeed in earthly politics. He will never be more at home than he has been on his island. So why does he give...