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That’s Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” of course; a mock-epic, 15-part poem that contains every major mythological story of antiquity. Ten of these stories have been adapted to the stage by playwright Mary Zimmerman and produced at Harvard by Allison B. Kline ’09, Julia K. Lindpaintner ’09, and Maria-Ilinca Radulian ’10. In the capable hands of visiting director Carmel O’Reilly, last Friday’s opening performance was sometimes spellbinding, sometimes frustrating, and sometimes both...
...Carmel O’Reilly, co-founder of the local Súgán Theatre Company, and produced by Allison B. Kline ’09, the play is this year’s Visiting Director’s Project. Zimmerman’s adaptation is a compilation of ten ancient Greek and Roman myths, some of which were taken from the original Ovid collection and others which were included because of their theatrical possibilities. She then rewrote the stories to include water as an underlying theme. “My original idea for the show was myths-in-water...
...trappings, this meeting is one of the most important in the history of the People's Republic, both for China and the world at large. The result of the current factional infighting will have a huge impact on how the country is run for the next five to ten years or more, says Huang Jing, a China scholar with the Brookings Institute in Washington. Those leaders aligned with Hu broadly back his (so far unsuccessful) attempts to slow the country's obsessive pursuit of growth at all costs, engineer a soft landing for the overheated economy and ensure that...
...coat, a gray vest, and a pair of black leather ankle boots (for herself). After a minor blip involving receipts, she’s on her way back to Harvard for a film screening. “I’ll probably start working at ten or eleven,” she says. “It shouldn’t take too long since I’m mostly using newspaper.” Morton strategizes for a few hours late Thursday night, getting up at ten the next morning to do the actual constructing. She considers using pages...
...That attitude led to quite a few excesses. Ten years ago, when a malfunctioning electric chair caused a prisoner's leather mask to burst into flames during his execution, Florida's Democratic Attorney General Robert Butterworth joked that the problems with "Old Sparky" - the chair's nickname - were actually a good deterrent to murder. Things didn't improve much after then Governor Jeb Bush and the Republicans took power in Tallahassee in 1999, especially at the Department of Juvenile Justice. In June of 2003, Omar Paisley, 17, an inmate at a juvenile detention center in Miami that was filled...