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Separating fact from fiction can be a difficult balancing act, but playwright Anne Washburn has impressively smudged that division, leaving an image of the fantastical nature of evil in its wake. Based on the trial of former Romanian dictators Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu and held together by a thick mixture of absurdity and Eastern European accents, the American Repertory Theatre’s world premiere of “The Communist Dracula Pageant” creates an image of madness that is both entertainingly and shockingly outlandish.The players will perform this unbelievable truth through Nov. 9. The audience is told...
Prior to the conference, the Harvard GSC prepared a questionnaire for completion by each delegation. The result—a thick packet of data, compiled by the GSC and tucked into every participant’s folder—showcased structural disparities between student governments and compared shared concerns...
...provided one of the play’s most entertaining scenes. The actors comically portrayed these foreign scientists, all of whom had different interpretations on who the Neolithic man was and disparaging theories about what he was doing before he died. Hilarity ensued when the scientists, with very thick and believable accents, began arguing their own theories and fighting for the microphone. Sarah T. Christian ’11 deserves special praise for her convincing portrayal of the French scientist.Lloyd-Bollard, as Alice, gave the strongest and most natural performance of the night. She seemed surprisingly comfortable on stage partially...
...horn-dominated “An Eluardian Instance.” “Death Is Not a Parallel Move” has a nice pastoral acoustic section which also flows coolly into following track, “Beware Our Nubile Miscreants,” this time through a thick orchestral flourish. But as should be expected at this point in the album, the tone shifts on a dime, turning from Sufjan Stevens to Mika without ever really sinking in. By far the highlight of the album comes when the funk slows down to Marvin Gaye speed...
...eighteenth birthday, Billy got his tongue pierced. Over the years, he’s stretched out the hole to its present size—capable of accommodating a fork. To demonstrate how he did this, he deftly pushes his tongue about in his mouth and pops out two thick metal stems. He then easily slips his index finger through the fleshy chasm. He wiggles...