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...traveler with a gift for blarney who arrives in a small town in Ireland’s County Mayo claiming to have killed his father. Christy wins the praise of the town and the love of Pegeen Mike (Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08), a feisty townswoman, for the bravery he affects in his vivid story of patricide; things get complicated when his father (Arlo D. Hill ’08) shows up with a head wound and angry questions.As the final Mainstage of the year, “Playboy” has great expectations to live...

Author: By Mary A. Brazelton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Playboy’ Plays It Real | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

This would be soap opera if the author were not unusually good at transforming acute, intuitive perceptions into sentences. Writing, this is called. Alice, half cracked, notices an overweight townswoman: "Her partially exposed freckled bosom, confined in its pushup bra, was barking and whining to get out." She slaps a hostile child: "He had absorbed the blow. It was as if the sting had gone right to a spot inside where he stored his wounds." And here is Alice's tiny daughter putting a clammy hand on her arm and trying to console her: "When I was your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Mom's Horror | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

Fuente Ovejuna. A 1600's Spanish drama by Lope de Vega and translated and adapted by Adrian Mitchell. The true story of a small town in fifteenth-century Spain whose peasant citizens, in order to defend their honor and rights as citizens, are led by a townswoman to rise up against their tyrannous commander. Loeb Drama Center, 8 p.m. $5 for students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard Daily Entertainment & Events | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

Fuente Ovejuna. A 1600's Spanish drama by Lope de Vega and translated and adapted by Adrian Mitchell. The true story of a small town in fifteenth-century Spain whose peasant citizens, in order to defend their honor and rights as citizens, are led by a townswoman to rise up against their tyrannical commander. Loeb Drama Center, 8 p.m. $5 for students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard Daily Entertainment & Events | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

Fuente Ovejuna. A 1600's Spanish dramaby Lope de Vega and translated and adapted byAdrian Mitchell. The true story of a small town infifteenth-century Spain whose peasant citizens, inorder to defend their honor and rights ascitizens, are led by a townswoman to rise upagainst their tyrannous commander. Loeb DramaCenter, 8 p.m. $5 for students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard Daily Entertainment & Events | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

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