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...land, Dan Sussner '99's Richard III is college theater as it was meant to be: ambitious, edgy and most importantly, experimental. Realizing his freedom from the constraints of profit and acclaim, Sussner seizes the rare opportunity to give free reign to his ideas. Though the resulting product is rough and at times obtuse, it has a degree of innovation one hopes to see more of in campus productions. The degree of experimentation in last weekend's production must have been a strain on the cast, but their overall willingness to aid in the testing of theatrical boundaries provided...
...rough [sitting out]," the right winger says. "It was a very frustrating experience, but to take a positive outlook on it, I learned a lot. When you're always in the game, sometimes it's helpful to step back and see things that you didn't notice before. It helps you to see how you could improve...
...only team ever to have won more regular-season games than this year's Yankees (116), and they did it in a shorter season. But the game played by the Cubs of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance--the game everyone played until Babe Ruth came along--was a rough scramble for runs made of walks, bunts, stolen bases and singles. The Cubs' top power hitter, Wildfire Schulte, managed all of seven home runs, typical for the era. If a club like this one had to play the highly evolved 1998 version of the game, it would be bashed into submission...
...October 21st Lucinda Williams concert at Somerville Theater was an eclectic mixture of quiet integrity and hard-edge rock sensibilities. The thoroughly polished diamond-in-the-rough performance was filled with superhuman guitar solos and riffs setting off Williams' contrastingly sweet and achingly clear voice. The concert was not just a performance but also a journey into Williams' musical roots. The night began with series of her more packaged songs, during which Williams herself appeared disenchanted. As she moved away from the pop and plunged into bluegrass and blues, the crowd, like clockwork, was set electric...
...with any good marine fiction, the sea itself is background, scene shifter and, from time to storm-lashed time, main character. But the series swims also on an ocean of wondrous language, in which inept seamen, for instance, are not only "sad brutish grobians," but "froward dirty disreputable rough good-for-nothing disorderly ragabashes and raparees." If there is a serious flaw, it is that since the novels are mostly about men, they are probably mostly for men. O'Brian writes good female characters, but mostly they remain ashore (and one of the best, Maturin's flamboyant wife Diana, dies...