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...page B2), is about much more than just a handkerchief. The play is set to shock and intrigue audiences during its upcoming run at the Adams Pool Theater. According to Director Rebecca J. Levy ’06, “Desdemona” is a comedic rewrite of Shakespeare??s famed tragedy “Othello.” Told from a purely female perspective, the play features the three-person cast of Beth R. McLeod as Desdemona, Anna M. Resnick ’09 as Desdemona’s maid Emilia, and Julia C.W. Chan...
...Suite from a Choreographic Offering,” to inaugurate the new Harvard Dance Center. Harvard Dance Center. 8 p.m. $10 general admission, $8 students. (CNC)Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief. Through Dec. 10. Paula Vogel’s “Desdemona” rewrites Shakespeare??s “Othello.” Adams House Pool Theatre. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $8 general admission, $5 students. (CNC)Hello, Dali! Through Dec. 17. The Currier House Drama Society presents an original work by Currier residents Kiernan P. Schmitt...
...stage with members from both of the two Harvard Jazz Bands. They will play a Byron original that incorporates Afro-Cuban beats, as well as Duke Ellington’s “Such Sweet Thunder,” a rarely-performed early Ellington piece that includes narration from Shakespeare??s sonnets.Byron recognizes that some students may find the decision to play such an early piece of Ellington’s a strange decision. “I know most of the Ellington that kids get to play and I’m interested in all of Ellington...
...final question is not so simple—she is asked to choose her race. Once again bureaucracy demands that she shed the complexity of her identity and simply “choose one.” “Only one?” she thinks to herself. Shakespeare??s famous quote, “Deny thy father and refuse thy name,” comes to mind. Squeezing into one racial box, choosing one race and denying another, and ultimately changing the way one has come to identify as a person, makes life for the multiracial...
James Shapiro finds no evidence of an amorous element in the playwright’s life at the end of the 16th century. “If Shakespeare was in love in 1599,” Shapiro writes, “it was with words.”And Shakespeare??s love of words reached a passionate peak that year. In a 12-month span, Shakespeare finished “Henry the Fifth, “Julius Caesar,” and “As You Like It,” on top of which he wrote...