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While this production promises to deliver the characteristic Gilbert and Sullivan humor style that the composers’ fans know and love, “Yeomen” is noteworthy for its new delivery of a Victorian-era story...
...what is not so typical about this rendition is the directing. Though some consider and portray theatrical farce quaint and Victorian, director Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05 advocates that this is “not [her] style” and that she sought to “take the story that’s offered… on its own terms.” Myhrum suggests that this approach both exposes the ever-appreciated comic chaos of Gilbert and Sullivan’s work and the beauty of a script that “does something...
...going to look like when it gets done. And it doesn?t cost hardly anything. Any big movie all has pre-vis, which are computerized versions of the movie. But we can do that now without having the technicians there to do it. And if you?re a Victorian like I am, you can handle it. Directors can just sit down like a writer and direct their movie on a desk...
...though he would hesitate to use a word as incendiary as “dangerous.”“It would be dismaying to me if a person were to have two or three courses in contemporary cartoons instead of courses in Shakespeare, 17th century poetry, and Victorian culture,” he says.Teskey’s not alone, according to Connor: “[University Professor] Helen Vendler has said that our students watch [recent Hollywood film] ‘Troy’ and don’t read ‘The Iliad...
...Orleans just signed an agreement to open up four miles of riverfront for development, including a one-mile-long park replacing wharves. Nearby, developer Pres Kabacoff's $318 million plan to transform the St. Thomas housing project into River Garden-a mixed-income neighborhood with Creole cottages, Victorian doubles and Greek Revival houses-should get back on track this month. And a few blocks away, KB Home, one of the nation's largest builders, will turn dirt this spring on 58 lots for Orleans-style homes. With $50 billion in private insurance payouts and government help...