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Required reading for Harvard’s Classics concentrators, The Menaechemi has always been one of the most popular of the Roman comedies, inspiring Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the recently revived The Boys From Syracuse and even Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors...
...major goal of the production is to translate the effect Plautus’ Latin version would have had on Roman viewers, eliciting an analougus response from modern viewers. Kimel says he hopes that the costume and the set of stock characters such as the cook, prostitute and doctor will “reflect our own society’s assumptions on the nature of stereotypes...
...plagiarism. “I am not surprised at all,” Perkins said of the Pleiades-Pleiades coincidence. Speculating upon the significance of the journal’s title, Pleiades member Katherine M. Dimengo ’04, a Crimson editor, cited the relevance of Greek and Roman mythology to modern literature and culture.Convinced that the name overlap was innocent coincidence, FM shifted gears from investigative reporter to section leader, asking the members of the social organization to analyze a selection from Pleiades. The girls listened attentively to a dramatic reading of “Blonde...
...Navy Seals' mission is simple, if next to impossible: rescue an Italian doctor from a Roman Catholic outpost in the besieged jungle of Nigeria. Just the doctor, none of the African patients. But even a tough guy like Lieut. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) can't resist a plea to take the wounded on a perilous trek--because the doctor is idealistic, the doctor is passionate, and the doctor is played by Monica Bellucci...
IT’S A WONDERFUL AFTERLIFE. Where would you like to visit after you die? The Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 155th spoof takes you through Heaven, Hell, and Limbo in a production of Divine Comedy proportions. Meet Rabbi Noah Fense, Nun Taken, and the Roman General Curtis Interruptus. Hilarious. Wednesdays through Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets $25 weekdays, $27 weekends. Group discounts available. Through Wednesday, March 19. Hasty Pudding Theater, 12 Holyoke...