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...these complex emotional exchanges were frequently undermined by the arrangement of the theater. The stage, in the center of the room, was an unadorned square, and the audience sat on all four sides. So, no matter how consistently the actors circled each other in an effort to address each side of the room, someone wasn’t going to see anything...
...After all, Antigonus turns out to be the victim of Shakespeare’s most famous stage direction: “Exit, pursued by a bear.” It’s grim and horrible and everything, but come on. Bears are funny...
...Autolycus who makes the happy ending of “A Winter’s Tale” possible. Perdita is reunited with the penitent Leontes, whose reappearance on the stage is welcome and touching. And Florizel, who would not have been allowed to marry a lowly shepherd’s daughter, is thrilled to discover that his beloved is actually a princess. Here, as in so many other places in Shakespeare, nobility shines through any disguise...
Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Laurence Fishburne will take the stage later this month as the 2007 Artist of the Year during the 22nd annual Cultural Rhythms festival, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations announced Friday afternoon...
Unfortunately, actors on the national stage don’t seem to know any better than Harvard’s naïve students. Democrats are currently engaged in an effort to resuscitate moribund unions with the “Employee Free Choice Act,” a breathtaking piece of doublespeak. The bill, among other things, strips workers of their right to vote over unionization and instead mandates a “card check.” In other words, rather than having workers vote in a secret ballot monitored by the neutral National Labour Relations Board, a company...