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...audience because it is a modern love story placed in a nontraditional setting." Told through various pieces of poetry mixed with monologues and dialogues, the nontraditional structure of the play also adds to its uniqueness. Hsu also praised the play for its humor in spite of the somewhat somber subject matter...
...contends, Shakespeare had "figured out what he liked and disliked in characters-so, for instance, he gave his heroine the best attributes of many previous heroines." She also notes that the play's original plot and fairy-tale feel may make Cymbeline a pleasant surprise for audiences raised on somber standards like Hamlet. Director Eric Fleisig-Greene '01 plans a small-scale, technically simple production that focuses on character and language; the black-box setup of the Loeb Ex and the production's relatively long rehearsal time promise to help his cast along toward this goal of finely crafted storytelling...
...Water, three sisters return home for their mother's funeral only to find that their pasts still permeate their world, even though the linchpin, their mother, is gone. Long buried conflicts rise to the fore as the men in their lives pop in unexpectedly. But far from a somber play about death and mourning, The Memory of Water is a hilarious comedy about sex, drugs and the embarrassing details of a shared past. Winner of the London Olivier Award for best comedy, Stephenson's play is sure to bring as much laughter to Harvard as it did to the West...
...frustration and anxiety. Children of divorce suffer depression, learning difficulties and other psychological problems more frequently than those of intact families. Some of Wallerstein's colleagues, not to mention countless divorced parents, felt they were being guilt-tripped by a square. They didn't want to hear this somber news...
...himself and his disease, now thought to be a type of epilepsy, van Gogh placed himself in a mental institution in St.-RŽmy. The last room of the exhibit, treating the last year of the artist's life, is flurried and rushed, and once again painted in somber blue. Even the text on the wall reads like a timeline - first St.-RŽmy, then Auvers and Dr. Gachet, then suicide with a shot in the chest...