Word: skeletonization
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...also, sometimes, uncanny. So much has been made about the rational character of the Pompidou that it's easy to overlook its enduring strangeness, the climate of uneasy feeling it creates as a building disemboweled, with its intestines and even its skeleton on display. Sitting on the broad, cobblestoned (and mime-infested) plaza in front of it, it's not hard to imagine that the underground workings of the city itself have erupted upward. The Pompidou may be high tech, its exoskeleton may be a rationalist's grid, but it strikes a note of ferocious dislocations and forbidden disclosures that...
...that’s just a bunch of things thrown together.” This description was an excellent working definition of Surrealism—and it could very well have described the serial structure of the play itself. There were some recurring characters, and there was almost the skeleton of a plot throughout the play, but the form of the show was ultimately that of a Surrealist sketch comedy...
...title of “Pterodactyls” is a sideways reference to a dinosaur skeleton that Todd unearths in the yard and assembles in the house, where it functions as a ten-foot-tall metaphor for death and decay that literally stares everyone in the face. It is present in various stages of completion throughout the play, adding a level of surreality—albeit plot-mandated surreality—to an otherwise fairly straightforward set. The other notable aspect of the set, which was designed by Courtney E. Thompson ’09 and suggests an apartment with...
Building a gigantic dinosaur skeleton is not an easy task–just ask History and Science concentrator and Dunster House resident Courtney E. Thompson ’09. Thompson is both the set designer and technical director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of “Pterodactyls,” a play written by Nicky Silver that opens this Friday at the Loeb Experimental Theatre. Thompson is responsible for the show’s visual centerpiece, a model Tyrannosaurus Rex that is nearly nine feet tall. "First off, you have to build a dinosaur...
...space of a two-and-a-half minute trailer for his 2006 film “Night in the Museum,” actor Ben Stiller contends with an agitated T-Rex skeleton, a belching sea beast, a flaming projectile launched from a diorama catapult, and a horde of rampaging Huns. But will he be able to deal with the barbs offered up by Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals? The world will soon find out. Stiller will receive the Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year (MOY) award for 2007, the group announced Monday...