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...paper, meant to represent poison, and each actor languished into a dramatic death on stage. Actor Nora K. C. Flum ’07, who last spring was in the Winthrop House Drama Society’s performance of “Cymbeline,” a lesser-known Shakespearean play, said that, as an English concentrator, she wanted to support the tutors by being a part of the performance. “I really like Shakespeare,” she said. Non-resident Lowell tutor Leslie E. Eckel ’98 said “Hamlet?...
...this Athena Theater Company (ATC) production, the characters hardly resemble their Shakespearean counterparts. Desdemona (Beth R. McLeod ’08), as opposed to being the faithful wife and innocent victim of her husband’s jealousy, emerges as a woman longing to live beyond the role of the traditional wife. She has turned to sleeping with the men of her husband’s company in an attempt to escape the confines of her existence...
Director Rebecca J. Levy ’06 has guided the actresses to impacting portrayals that engage the audience in the characters’ psyches, giving the female figures a more substantiated human dimension than their Shakespearean counterparts. Unlike the Shakespearean play, “Desdemona” puts an empathetic focus an the unfortunate condition of these women, who have an inner potential that is beyond what their male-dominated world will allow...
...together into over 20 short scenes and they’re like movie takes. Each scene has a different feel to it. Some parts are really emotional and dramatic. It’s really funny but also very moving,” said Resnick. Though Shakespearean purists may be surprised by Vogel’s dark, satirical take on the original, Levy predicts that most viewers will have much more positive reactions: “[The audience] will eat it up like fresh baked goods...
...Loeb Music Libraries. Free. (KAK) Paul Robeson as Othello. Through Jan. 13, 2006. As the first African-American actor to take the role of Othello in over a century, Paul Robeson won a 20-minute standing ovation and made his 1943 Broadway show “the most important Shakespearean production of the century,” according to Frank Wilson, the curator of this exhibit, which features photographs and documents surrounding Robeson’s Othello. Pusey Library. Free. (LEB) Silver and Shawls. Through Jan. 29, 2006. This exhibit highlights shawls and silver tableware produced in India during...