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...What type of behavior or face do we represent?" Campbell asks. "Do we want someone who represents dominant culture or do we want an S&M leather queen? I was seen as selling out to dominant culture...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Divas? Try Diva and the Divettes. Hail, Queen of Soul...
...loud static of eighth-grade toilet humor. But the bizarrely goofy comedy of the production becomes all the more surreal in contrast with the newly straight-faced drama, providing some startlingly memorable moments: Kirk Hanson '99 as the apothecary Cerimon, hamming it up as he restores the drowned queen Thaisa to life ("She's ALIIIIVE!"); Michael Roiff '01 as the whorehouse Bawd, camping it up in a drag performance so broad it threatens to overwhelm everyone else on stage; and, of course, the constantly intrusive pirates, who are always guaranteed to provoke a laugh...
...bawdy-house, continually brightens the stage. And Kate Taylor '00, who for the first half has nothing to do but to stand on stage as Antiochus's Daughter and crumple her face in disdain, emerges unexpectedly in the second half as a coldly terrifying Dionyza, the evil queen of Tarsus who plots the murder of our heroine Marina. (Taylor's final appearance, as the goddess Diana in an extraordinary strip tease scene, was equally impressive. But, unfortunately, the moment is ephemeral and cannot be recaptured in prose...
...soon clear that monarchists were decisively outnumbered, and the main issue became the procedure for choosing the Head of State. At present the Governor-General, the representative of the Queen, is appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister. The position is largely ceremonial, but the Governor-General has a constitutional role to play and can, in certain circumstances, draw upon the reserve powers of the Crown...