Word: rome
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...Hasty Pudding performs A Forum Affairs, its 146th production. Set in the decadence of Ancient Rome and the passion-drenched sands of Egypt, the show features love, death and lust for the throne of the Roman emperor. Shows are in the Hasty Pudding Theatre, 12 Holyoke St. Tickets ($20, $18) are available at the Pudding box office...
Which is, of course, exactly what the cast of the Hasty Pudding The articles does in its 146th production, "A Forum Affair." This year's high-budget, high-priced extravaganza takes us to Ancient Rome, where the fraternities hold jeans and t-shirt parties and the royal spectators at the Colosseum sit in the Caesarean section...
...Ancient Rome--with a few side rips to Egypt--makes terrific fodder for Pudding material. If all else fails, after all, you can throw in a Roman numeral joke: "Take V," the taskmaster tells his crew. Or a hieroglyphic joke "Feather before squiggly line except after bird...
...script, by David Javerbaum '93, Chip Rossetti '93 and John S. Berman '95, is loosely, loosely, vaguely about intrigue and attempted murder in Ancient Rome and Egypt. Really, though, the would-be plot isn't much more than an excuse for a set of broadly drawn characters with funny names...
...when in Rome...