Word: saa
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Fernando de la Rua: resigns on Dec. 20 Ramon Puerta: Dec. 21-23 Adolfo Rodriguez Saa: Dec. 23-30 Eduardo Camano: Dec. 31-Jan. 1 Eduardo Duhalde: inaugurated...
Scrambling to fill the leadership vacuum, Congress prepared to name provincial governor Adolfo Rodriguez Saa as acting President until an election is held on March 3. But Argentina's collapsing finances demand urgent attention. Default on the country's $132 billion debt seems inevitable--especially since last week's popular rage was fed by the government's preoccupation with servicing debt in the midst of an economic meltdown. Unemployment has skyrocketed to more than 19%. Add to that a split in the opposition Peronist party, and it's clear that an end to Argentina's woes will not come soon...
...SAA production marks the stage premiere of Grave Affairs, a radio play written six years ago for the BBC by co-director John Mathew. The play takes place in the fictitious village of Matoor, in the real district of Kerala at the tip of southwest India. Matoor’s population includes people of widely varying religious faiths—Hindus, Muslims and Christians—an assortment that makes for insecure relations and latent hostilities, not to mention some interesting graveyards...
...SAA has recreated these settings admirably in Leverett Old Library, efficiently partitioning the stage space and using lightning and sound creatively to convey the atmosphere of Matoor...
...peaceful coexistence can be the basis of unparalleled human progress.” Mathew’s play may be a farce but it certainly hits home. And with the exception of a few technical difficulties typical of any student production, even I have to admit that the SAA has mounted its first production to great artistic and emotional success...