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...which goes to show that whatever his faults, Tim Geithner knows how to game America's confidence in the banking system. But does that mean the stress tests themselves are one big confidence game? Perhaps. The playwright David Mamet said such scams get their name not from the confidence the victim places in the con man, but the trust the con man pretends to place in the victim to elicit trust in return. By that standard, Geithner may be the most effective con man around, for better and for worse...
...onie est en avance ou le mal joli”—translated by Shapiro to mean “The Pregnant Pause or Love’s Labor Lost” —an obscure 1911 one-act farce written by French playwright Georges Feydeau. During Europe’s “Golden Age,” also known as the Belle Époque, “[Feydeau] ruled the comic stage,” Shapiro says. Yet “The Pregnant Pause,” which is showing in Adams House tonight...
...plays,” he says. “I was really disappointed.” Pecci took the year off and founded an art gallery with friends. Upon his return, Pecci fully immersed himself in the college’s theater scene as an actor, director, and playwright. When President Faust instituted the Task Force on the Arts in 2007, Pecci was asked to join as one of two College students. “It was a good way for me to express my dissatisfaction with the way things were operating here,” he says. Like Pecci...
...Flynn relishes performing in musical theater for its combination of the best of two worlds: singing and acting. At an early age, Flynn was influenced by the presence of music and theater in her household. Her father is a guitarist and her older sister is an actress and a playwright. Flynn started singing in elementary school and began performing later on, taking part in community and school theater; she also participated in singing competitions and performed at weddings and other smaller occasions. Unsure that she was going to continue pursuing her interests in the arts, Flynn decided to enroll...
...actors, and all others involved. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s “The Space Between” will use the space to produce an experimental play combining theatrics, dance, and, less likely, physics. Catherine “Calla” Videt ’09, playwright and director of the play, who could not be reached for comment, wrote the work as the second half of her thesis for her Special Concentration in Theatre and Physics. She started developing the project as a freshman, inspired by the beauty of physics. Videt, along with Ilinca Radulian...