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...death of more than 70 Tamil civilians since Rajapakse's election, killed by the army or plainclothes death squads. The killings include the execution-style shooting of five Tamil students, the assassination of a Tamil parliamentarian in church on Christmas Eve, and the murder of a Tamil actress, her sister and mother at home in Jaffna...
...would expect an opera whose protagonist is named Sister Blanche of the Agony of Christ to be excessively melodramatic. But the Dunster House Opera (DHO) production of Francis Poulenc’s 1957 modern classic, “Dialogues of the Carmelites” is anything but excessive...
...independent, tormented Sister Blanche and the deathly ill First Prioress (Meghan D. McLoughlin ’09) dominate the first act. In particular, the natural, yet traumatic, death of the First Prioress hangs over the rest of the opera...
...degree of success. As the earnest, caring Father Confessor, Roy A. Kimmey ’09 displayed an extremely powerful musical and dramatic presence; his immediacy brought his character to life. Jessica G. Peritz ’06 as Mother Marie, Caitlin C. Vincent ’07 as Sister Constance and Catherine L. Vaughan ’08 as the Second Prioress perform with similar success...
...stark, open set and spare staging suggests that the characters are essentially alone, and that their prayers largely go unanswered. But more importantly, DHO’s production implies that there is no higher power watching over the characters; the only redeeming note of the story, when Blanche meets Sister Constance at the scaffold to die with her, is portrayed as a small triumph of human compassion, not one of divinely inspired martyrdom...