Word: theater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard theater has a way of bringing out the foolishness in us all. In the Lowell Society's twin productions of The Great Catherine and Tom Thumb the Great, silliness is the name of the game. Queens wear metallic platform shoes, cats purr to the tunes of Andrew Lloyd Weber and footnotes come to life...
...realizes that something is different about this production immediately upon walking into the theater space. The first play, Bernard Shaw's The Great Catherine, suposedly takes place in 1776 St. Petersburg. However, surveying the neo-60's psychedelic murals that surround the stage one could have easily mistake the set for a Bangles sound-stage. For obvious reasons, the wall-size mural of a wizarded-out Mickey Mouse on a flying broom simply does not cut it as a Russian landscape...
...this Lowell House performance includes two dramas, the program tends to be long. But despite the three-hour duration, the double bill of The Great Catherine and Tom Thumb the Great is a prime example of the greatness that can be achieved when the right creative channels of Harvard theater are tapped...
...looking for action and theater this weekend, catch True West in the Kronauer space. It's true drama...
Faced with an outstanding bill of $1300 for the use of Sanders Theater last year, the orchestra was denied the use of theater this year and has since held all of its concerts in Paine Hall...