Word: queen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Belgium's King Albert and Queen Elizabeth visited the University...
Credit must also go to Janie Fliegel, the reigning queen of Boston set-design, who constructs an apartment for the Slopers that demonstrates their wealth but also communicates how isolated and restricted Catherine is by her social station...
...various members of the royal family. The royal family that we envision is not one of privilege, but of duty, where representing the highest morals of the country is considered a mandatory job. What if the heir to the throne didn't want to be king or queen? Forcing such a person to become monarch would be a violation of his or her right of self-determination. Also, such a person, forced into office, would probably be a terrible monarch...
...melodrama that makes Hamlet pale in comparision. Set in ancient Rome, it traces the conflict between returning military hero Titus Andronicus (Padriac O'Reilly '98) and the late Emperor's son, Saturninus (Henry Clarke '00), to whom Titus cedes the throne. Trouble arises when Saturninus marries Tamora (Danielle Sherrod), Queen of the subjugated Goths, after being turned down by Titus' daughter, Lavinia, who instead marries Saturninus' younger brother Bassianus (Jesse Conrad '00). For Tamora bears a grudge against Titus and his sons for executing her own eldest son and is determined to seek vengeance. Various complications, and a great deal...
...still manages to suggest the violence in some interesting ways--most notably the scene in which Tamora, Queen of the Goths, and her sons Demitrius and Chiron, seek audience with Titus: it's transplanted into Titus' bath, accentuating the play's obsession with human flesh. Indeed, as if to further this alternative method of presenting this obsession, nearly all of the principal characters at some point or other are at least partially undressed. However, music, sound and lighting, much more than the actual set, are used to evoke an eerie, faintly unearthly atmosphere, and do so effectively. This is more...