Word: puppetized
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...doesn?t speak with Jon Stewart, whose The Daily Show has made political satire and burlesque a nightly addiction for a million and a half Americans. But she does show excerpts from satirical series nearer home, including Rory Bremner?s Between Iraq and a Hard Place and the French puppet show Les Guignols de l?Info, in which effigies of Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Berlusconi and other European leaders sing a mockery of "We Are the World" (in English): "We f--- the world, / We f--- the children, / We f--- the world, the forest...
...Harvard, the multi-talented Goldman has worked behind the scenes on countless shows, contributing her expertise as a set designer, stage manager, and even puppet designer. She served as president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players last year, and has also played the cello for the Mozart Society Orchestra for four years...
...grand as the emotional and musical ambitions of the operetta, is limited only by the constraints of the Agassiz. Lighting designer Christen L. McDuffee ’08 made great choices with the multi-tiered set, and the Ravenmaster (Nick Bentley) sported a funny-looking but well-made raven puppet, the symbolism of which I have yet to figure out (as do the two noisy old people who sat next...
...metajoke of Wonder Showzen is the dissonance between the message of kids' shows (that the world is friendly and understandable) and everything that is left out (hatred, injustice, random suffering). It's best captured in the man-on-the-street interviews, some done by a sweetly obnoxious blue puppet named Clarence, some by children. (One adorable little girl asks Wall Street workers, "Who did you exploit today...
...SP’s interpretation promises to be an exciting reinvention of an old favorite. What’s more, the show casts the Tower of London as a puppet, lending a slightly off-beat vibe to the show. As HRG&SP President Casey M. Lurtz ’07 notes, ““Yeomen of the Guard” is the closest Gilbert & Sullivan [came] to a serious dramatic work.” The variety and hilarity in “Yeomen” promise to make it an exciting production...