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...truth through Nov. 9. The audience is told near the beginning that “with the exception of rumor, everything here is fact. Apart from all the very colorful bits, it is imagination; this is how we create a history.”Performed on a relatively sparse stage at the Zero Arrow Theatre, the show frequently transitions from the Ceausescu’s “kangaroo court” trial to their delusions. The shifts are complemented by scenes of paranoid soldiers, riots, and camera crews capturing the play’s most violent moments. The tone...
...interpretation of Mac Wellman’s play “The Hyacinth Macaw”—is subtitles. Yes, they would have been much appreciated.Director Marcus Stern, an Associate Director at the American Repertory Theatre, oversaw the play’s original 1994 production at Primary Stages in New York City. His new production is the result of a collaboration with the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s 2008 Visiting Directors Project. The play is at once an overwhelming spectacle of words that simultaneously aims to confuse, humor, and enlighten, without an end in sight. Initially...
...Harvard Libraries site, and the HOLLIS reference e-mail address. “We expect there is definitely a need for this,” she said. Despite Kelley-Millburn’s expectations, few students use, or even know about, Ask Us Live! Still in its pilot stage, the program has received a “disappointing” number of student queries, Bourneuf said. Each day, the librarians answer from one to three questions, he said. Undergraduate Council President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 said that while he thinks the program...
...died before her birth. In the third and final storyline, a group of scientists from around the world try to piece together the life of a 5,200-year-old body discovered 120 meters from the Italian border. Videt, with her colorful and creative directing, enlivens the NCT. The stage, decorated with a plethora of maps from all over the world and suitcases of all shapes and sizes to emphasize the themes of travel and human interconnection, was constantly flooded with action. So as to imitate real life, there were normally several actors on stage who were doing something completely...
...Dalai Lama fled his homeland for exile in India in 1959, and has since become a familiar, maroon-robed presence on the world stage in a tireless, peripatetic campaign to win his homeland some degree of autonomy and preserve Tibet's traditional culture. This year he has found himself in an increasingly impossible situation since the riots in March, analysts and academics say. Younger and more radical forces among the some 100,000-strong exile community in India have increasingly called for a tougher stance against Beijing, particularly as reports of alleged further abuse, including arrests and shootings of demonstrating...