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...world where Botticellian references are fetishized and primary colors are scoffed at, “Patience” may be required. Any Gilbert and Sullivan experience can be slightly overwhelming, but the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players succeed in making Victorian operetta engaging and accessible for a twenty-first century audience. “Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride,” which ran at the Agassiz Theatre April 3-12, was an ambitious project, but the Players, under director David S. Jewett ’08, engaged the audience from the moment the conductor invited them...
Date My House--and HGTV's Sleep On It, which has essentially the same premise--points up the shift in power between buyers and sellers. During the housing boom, it was the buyers who were afraid they might have to date (i.e., rent) forever. Your house was a coy Victorian maiden with eager suitors queuing up in the parlor. Now it's Lily Bart in The House of Mirth, facing squalor and destitution should it fail to find a suitable match. It's a contestant on The Bachelor, competing with a crowd of others and pining for a private date...
...historic move, Knowles ordered an extravagant renovation of Memorial Hall, damaged in a 1956 fire, including the restoration of its soaring, Victorian tower, which evoked the Oxford campus...
...internet slang for what happens when, for better or for worse, an artist gives the people exactly what they want. Philip Pullman's brief, exquisite novel ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE NORTH (Knopf; 104 pages) is fan service at its best. North is set in the same quasi-Victorian alternative universe as Pullman's Golden Compass, where every human is accompanied by a talking-animal soul mate called a daemon. It's a prequel, the story of how a young and not-yet-grizzled Lee Scoresby, gunslinging aeronaut extraordinaire, and his rabbit daemon, Hester, first met up with armored...
...ignoring the issues of colonialism and its abuses present in both Caliban’s character and the play as a whole. The interpretation of some characters differs from what would have been presented at the play’s inception. Prospero and Ariel are imagined as a Victorian magician and his assistant. One suspects that Ariel’s costume, which includes leather boots, fishnet stockings, turquoise eye shadow, and a top hat, was not the go-to outfit of most 17th-century fairies. Yet this change from the original version of the play effectively exposes the more ridiculous...