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...they’ll kill you.” For South African playwright Pieter-Dirk Uys, this statement is hauntingly literal. His most recent one-man production, “Elections and Erections,” currently being performed at the Zero Arrow Theatre, showcases the wry satire and verbal wit that has defined his career. The performance’s unique format, drawing upon drag and cabaret influences, provides a vehicle for the strong political dissent for which many South Africans have been killed.Uys began writing plays criticizing Apartheid while attending college in Cape Town in the 1960s...
...recognizing them in order to spot potential troublemakers, including terrorists. Since the summer of 2007, O'Sullivan, working with micro-expression detection pioneer Paul Ekman, has helped train thousands of airport security officers in techniques to detect the kind of involuntary physical and physiological actions - both body language and verbal expressions - that people exhibit when trying to hide something...
...Deeley and Anna engage in a battle over who really “possesses” Kate, using language and recollections as their weapons of choice.“Old Times” contains many of Pinter’s trademarks as a playwright: uncertainty, an unspoken struggle for verbal control, sexual tension, questions with no answers, and an exploration of the nature of memory. These characteristics make Pinter’s work wonderfully frustrating and absorbing, but at the same time create difficulties for the director, who must clearly convey the central ideas despite an often indiscernible reality.In this...
...fetched. It is recited in Arabic; to whom could it conceivably have been proselytizing? Declaring something to be proselytizing reflects an attempt to ensure that it is censured. However, those who consider the adhan thusly disregard the power and religious potency embodied in symbols, behavior, and non-verbal actions. For example, one who takes issue with the adhan should most assuredly also have a problem with dollar bills and the inscription thereon proclaiming “In God we trust,” which could be read as an attempt by Americans to preach to atheists. To denounce the adhan...
...Officers noticed two individuals behaving strangely near a motor scooter at the corner of Harvard St. and Prescott St. The officers sent the individuals on his or her way. March 16 12:16 a.m.—Officers observed two individuals in a verbal argument at Pforzheimer House. One of the individuals claimed he wanted an entry fee returned. Officers told the individual that entry fees were not refundable; the individual became angry and raised his or her arms and began yelling. The individual grabbed an officer’s arm and continued yelling. The officers instructed the individual...