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...Ba’al, Brecht attempts to provoke the audience into responding both emotionally and intellectually to the scandalous behavior of his protagonist. By editing the original text down to a production time of just longer than an hour, Director Geordie F. Broadwater ’04 has perhaps realized Brecht’s intent more fully than the author did in his own lengthy original. Broadwater’s Ba’al is a constant, visceral experience for the audience...
When the audience first meets the main characters, they have long since abandoned the innocence of their youth. Franklin Shepard, (Patrick W. Hosfield ’05), the protagonist, is a successful but unhappy Hollywood producer, who has succumbed to the lure of fame and fortune, abandoning his true love, songwriting. His “old friend” Mary Flynn (Sarahn M. Wheeler ’03) has become a bitter alcoholic, unable to write another best-seller or suffer the A-list crowd that surrounds her. The last member of the central trio is Charley Kringas (Christian...
...Harvard, he wrote a novella about a student who was “allergic to technology—he ended up having to type his essays on a manual typewriter, and fell into this collection of people soured with modernity.” Douthat admits that, like his protagonist, he possesses “a vague dissatisfaction with modern life...I have always romanticized the past and that shows up in my politics”. Indeed, his room is adorned with posters of Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe - stars from Hollywood’s glamour heyday - as well...
...small village so remote it is a long day's journey from Yong Jing. It is 1971, midway during the Cultural Revolution, and they are the unwitting?and unwilling?assignees to a program of re-education through labor. Their crime: parents labeled as enemies of the people. The nameless protagonist is the son of doctors, while Luo's father is an eminent dentist who threatened national security by revealing a state secret: in a moment of weakness he boasted he had once fit Mao Zedong with new teeth...
...story's protagonist, Maria McShane, lost an eye in a bombing in Northern Ireland in 1976. She was pregnant at the time. Eighteen years later, the son she was carrying back then was shot by a Protestant gunman. Her son's murder shattered the family, but Maria says, "We always told our other children, 'Protestants didn't do this, one man did this...