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...Complicite theater company, has reimagined Miller's domestic drama as a stylized mixture of Brecht and Euripedes. The main characters open the play by announcing they're going to perform a play for us; supertitles introduce us to "Act I," "Act 2" and even the "Intermission." The set is spare and semi-abstract: a screen door, segments of wire fence, a window floating in the night sky. Secondary characters linger offstage in full view of the audience, or gather to listen at key moments, forming an accusatory Greek chorus. Video projections and ominous, movielike underscoring help solidify the enveloping tension...
...into confusion. Her first instinct was toward prayer (her first instincts were almost always toward prayer), but she did not know what to pray for. The marbled vestibule seemed to spin around her in a white haze. All around her, the blur of white walls and white pillars and spare mahogany furniture seemed to dissolve into one streak, like a spirit. She sank to the floor, clasping her hands. And as if a voice had spoken to her, she knew with a sudden strength and certainty that the stranger was not good—nay! that he was evil...
...scribbled in notebooks or flipped through books as they waited for him to arrive. “He’s pretty sweet,” said Alex Kalamaroff, a Boston public school substitute teacher who sits in on Wood’s lectures at Harvard in his spare time. “My problem with book reviews is that I’d rather read books. [But] Even Philip Roth’s new novel is worse than this,” Kalmaroff said, holding up a copy of “How Fiction Works...
...spare time, this senior designs a critically-acclaimed line of ties. Like Batt, he’s also considering a future in the design world. “I may expand my brand in the future to include home décor items...
...government is necessarily the corrosive cesspool that Senator John McCain and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have both tried to conjure for partisan ends. If we are to be disheartened, let it be because of the tendency in government to look after one’s own, and to ultimately spare offenders any meaningful repercussions...