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Even without the Harvard jokes, the script is funny--kitschy, but funny. The play is described in the program as "a late-20th-century response to the Elizabethan masterpiece," Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe. The plot has no surprises: a previously upstanding citizen and scholar sells his soul to the devil in exchange for having his innermost wishes fulfilled and must eventually pay the price for his folly...
...Harvard has endeared itself to me because it provided me a wonderful education as a student at both the college and the law school, and a fine home for my development as a teacher and a scholar," Areeda said in a telephone interview yesterday...
...think Areeda represents the very best traditions of the Harvard Law School as a teacher, scholar, lawyer and as a person in every respect," said Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Charles Fried '65. "He's the platonic essence of the Harvard professor...
...interweaves two time periods and settings, in this case present-day England and 1930 India. Also like its companion piece, the new play is framed as a quest by a careerist academic who is loaded with data but doesn't have a clue. Here it's an American scholar researching the life of consumptive English poet Flora Crewe-in particular, whether Flora posed nude for an artist named Nirad Das while traveling in India for her health some 60 years ago, and if so, whether the portrait was the token of a love affair...
...Peter Wood's staging, the play glides cinematically among Indian scenes, Flora's letters home, the scholar's footnotes and reminiscences by Das' son and Flora's surviving sister (Margaret Tyzack) to create a tenderly comic rumination on the ironies of history and colonialism, of creativity and eros-all unexpectedly mellow for the pyrotechnical Stoppard. Art Malik catches Das' contradictory yearnings, caught up in India's independence movement yet in thrall to Dickens and all things English. Felicity Kendall wittily and poignantly plays the free-spirited Flora, who shows Das that only by being true to himself...