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Prepare to be admitted—not into a theater, but into a mental ward. At tonight’s performance of “The Art Room,” ushers dressed as orderlies will attend the audience, handing out medication in the form of breath mints. Despite its bizarre setting, Billy Aronson’s play is actually a romantic comedy based on a farce by French playwright Georges Feydeau. Renée L. Pastel ’09 directed and Davone J. Tines ’09 and Kelley D. McKinney ’09 produced...
It’s a tale as old as time: two households, both alike in dignity. From “Romeo and Juliet” to “West Side Story,” forbidden love has been a staple in the theater. But how often does Harvard hear that tale told in Spanish?In a break with tradition, the newly formed student group “Harvard College TEATRO!” debuted a production “Bodas de Sangre” by Federico García Lorca in the original Spanish in the Agassiz Theatre last...
...aspirations or opportunities in a systematic way. Our extraordinary strengths in the arts remain fragmented, less well-understood, less well-supported, and less integrated than their importance warrants. Demand exceeds supply in many areas — class slots in film and creative writing; professional direction and support in theater; practice facilities for music; rehearsal space for drama; studios for the plastic arts. Cross-School and cross-unit collaborations are underdeveloped, and resources have not kept pace with changing needs. Many of our peer institutions have, in recent years, undertaken serious expansion in arts programming, offering us both models...
...Powell explains. “The plot is ridiculously contrived. Characters confront each other with rhymed couplets before doing battle. It’s too hard to take seriously.”With the staging, however, Powell has tried to retain many of the stylized gestures popular in theater of the time. With the music, historical fidelity has even higher stakes.“Baroque composers left a lot of decisions unmade in the written music,” explains Hall. “You have to play the music in an intelligent way in order to bring the piece...
...weirdness. The video follows Whiteman as he takes an escorted tour throughout an office building. Or, at least I think it’s an office building—it could just as likely be a mental ward. Either way, he encounters a room filled with animals, a movie theater showing a screening of an erratic car crash, and a discotheque. To top it all off, the video ends with Whiteman following a flock of flying birds and aiming a bow and arrow toward a road congested by traffic. Social critique? Maybe. Whiteman might be asking some interesting questions...