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...band took on war and lost innocence. With their most recent six-minute-plus epic, “Jesus of Suburbia,” they focus on a subject nearer and dearer to them: love and loss among the over-eyelinered. The video’s protagonist, who hubristically claims in subtitled dialogue to be “nailed to a couch, suffering for [his] sins,” is “St.” Jimmy. He has the classic underfed, spiky-black sneering punk look rarely seen past the 1970s (but frequently outside the Harvard Square...
...Seagull” revolves around ten actors and writers at a country home, and the final fourth act is set two years after a defining episode, allowing audiences to see how each character has changed—usually for the worse. While there is no singular protagonist, the struggles of a few characters dictate the action...
...such performance illustrates the rather conservative politics of The Club. After a “most welcome and delicious” supper in 1911, the girls wrote a short play about the suffrage movement. In it, the protagonist, Mr. Frothingham—played by a member wearing a man’s suit—tries to write a speech. Four uppity Suffragettes disturb him, but his “sweet secretary”—who is totally crushing on him—pities the guy. He tries to give his speech in Radcliffe Yard, but is rudely...
...traditional song-series and their fictional narratives, telling instead an autobiographical account of Darnielle’s childhood. Writing closer to home, Darnielle drops the overbearing hysterics of the alpha-series lover for projections onto details of his childhood. Take despair: In “Tahallassee” our protagonist loses perspective, remarking, “Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania.” In “The Sunset Tree” a young Darnielle also loses perspective, but in the other extreme, seeing reflections of his deterioration in the “half...
...action consists of four people discussing a romantic comedy that they are writing. The piece turns into a more serious fulfillment of its title when one of the writers turns out to be the “real-life” protagonist of their story in the larger play. The situation was constructed cleverly, and made this drama one of the wittiest pieces of the festival...