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Presenting plays ranging from a three-page-long "Skinhead Hamlet" to a night of performance art, the ART/Monday, which throughout the year sponsors talks and off-beat theater at the Loeb, has moved into the Experimental Theatre for a "Month of Mondays." They'll be presenting five plays and one selection of performances art in repertory, a total of 30 performances during January...
...When the undergraduates aren't around, we run in and grab what we can," said Wes Savick, who studies directing at the Institute. Savick is directing "Stone" a play by Edward Bond that opened this Monday. He is also directing "Skinhead Hamlet" a compressed parody by Richard Curtis that's written about English urban punks. The piece is so brief, in fact, that Savick's major worry right now is "how to fill the evening up, not leave people short...
Across the Square two kids with spiked hair slap each other in the face, playfully. A skinhead behind me taps me on the shoulder...
...They're pretty funny," he says, growing quiet. I tell him about the time I saw a kid hurt himself doing a stage dive in New Orleans. Stage diving involves jumping head first from a concert stage onto a crowded dance floor. The skinhead laughs, not cruelly...
...turn back to the skinhead and ask him if he thinks the great punk bands are dead...