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...strong-willed mother (Nora Zimmet '00) borders on incest. He ignores his doting wife (Monica Henderson '99). While dealing with the onslaught of all of these issues, Coriolanus must also consider whether or not he should join forces with his recent enemy Aufidius (Bashir Salahuddin '98) to recapture Rome...
Weiss and McCarthy revelled in their roles as the dastardly consuls, sneaking around the stage in dirty, gaudy orange suits while manipulating the people of Rome. They offered a severely satirical portrait of political corruption. Zimmet's performance as Volumnia, Coriolanus' mother, matched Egan's in intensity. Zimmet proved extremely capable of fleshing out her character's witty lines, as well as her questionable relationship with Coriolanus...
...succeeds in vitalizing a play considered by many critics as evidence that Shakespeare had exhausted the tragic vein. Coriolanus is about violence, power, politics, and pain, themes that are just as relevant to our 20th century America as they were to Shakespeare's Elizabethan England and to Ancient Rome. Carefully conceived and performed, Olson made Coriolanus feel like it was written yesterday. For a play that is almost 400 years old, there is no higher mark of success...
...realize that Rome wasn't built in a day and that the problems confronting women at the College will not be solved overnight. We look to the gender committee to take its mission seriously, keep a higher profile, meet often and provide much-needed role models for women at Harvard...
RECOVERING. POPE JOHN PAUL II, 76; from an appendectomy; in Rome. Doctors said they found no sign of any serious ailment during the surgery...