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Reptiles and mammals may represent different classes in the animal kingdom, but researchers in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology have found that similar molecular changes cause both a lizard and a shrew to produce a toxin—a discovery that may shed light on similar changes that occur in other animals...
When lead author Yael T. Aminetzach, a postdoctoral fellow in OEB, compared the toxin to a nontoxic counterpart, she found that the molecular changes occurred in active site of the enzyme. While the toxins from the lizard and the shrew are distinct, the overall trend of changes turned out to be the same...
...Wild Cat, a new bar in the basement of The Garage on JFK Street, has recently been serving up some extremely unusual fare. Until November 15, this dingy little watering hole will be home to “The Taming of the Shrew,” the most recent production by the Actors’ Shakespeare Project. This fictional bar acts as the backdrop for Shakespeare’s famous battle of the sexes, directed by OBIE-award winner Melia Bensussen...
...traditionally focus on the play’s portrayal of gender stereotypes and the domestication of women, what intrigues Bensussen about the show is the idea of transformation. In the director’s notes, she writes, “Within the world of ‘Shrew,’ everyone is playing at what they are not, and class, as well as gender, are exposed as performances in which performer and viewer are complicit...
Thus begins the actual story of “Shrew.” Bensussen manipulates this play-within-a-play trope to great success for the majority of the opening scenes. The actors take on their roles with the delightful awkwardness of children in a school play—scripts in hand, direction shouted at them mid-scene, and endearingly over-the-top line readings. Yet as the show progresses, the actors become more comfortable in their roles, and the production shifts from a clever tongue-in-cheek commentary on social performativity into a relatively normal presentation of Shakespeare?...