Word: sorceresses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club's production of Medea tries to be both epic and contemporary, and too often just seems stranded somewhere in between. In an effort to update the tale of the exiled sorceress who kills her children to spite her unfaithful husband, this production offers plenty of modern allusions, which work only with varying success...
These elements detract from some of the better performances. Jennifer Sun is excellent as Medea. Her portrayal of the sorceress as a strong, driven and bizarrely triumphant woman is convincing. She succeeds at the difficult feat of making an unrepentant infanticidal mother a compelling and even sympathetic character. J.C. Wolfgang Murad, as Medea's wayward husband Jason, is a little hesitant in the early sections, but reaches a convincingly enraged pitch by the final scenes...
...Magnum Force at 3:30 and 10 p.m.; and Sudden Impact at 5:45 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 4. Macao at 4:15 and 8 p.m. and His Kind of Woman at 5:45 and 9:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 5. The Sorceress at 5:15 and 8 p.m. and From the Eagle's Nest at 4:30 and 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6. Barfly at 4 and 8 p.m. and Under the Volcano at 5:50 and 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday...
...trumpeting conviction or the sheer inventiveness of Rubens'. His best paintings were his portraits and his secular allegories, like Rinaldo and Armida, 1629, done under the spell of Titian. Taken from Tasso's epic poem Jerusalem Delivered, a great favorite at Charles' court, it illustrates the moment when the sorceress Armida falls in love with the wandering Christian knight Rinaldo on glimpsing his sleeping face. The sensuous color, the glow of flesh and even the eyeline of the scene -- shot, as it were, from slightly below -- recall the Titians and Veroneses that Van Dyck had avidly studied in Venice seven...