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Separating fact from fiction can be a difficult balancing act, but playwright Anne Washburn has impressively smudged that division, leaving an image of the fantastical nature of evil in its wake. Based on the trial of former Romanian dictators Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu and held together by a thick mixture of absurdity and Eastern European accents, the American Repertory Theatre’s world premiere of “The Communist Dracula Pageant” creates an image of madness that is both entertainingly and shockingly outlandish.The players will perform this unbelievable truth through Nov. 9. The audience is told...
...hears mortality gargling at him everywhere. In the first scene, he wakes to a radio talk-show report about how the coming of autumn is a harbinger of death; from then on, Caden's life is one long fall. Reading the newspaper, Caden sees a headline about a playwright. "Harold Pinter's dead," he muses aloud. "No, wait, he won the Nobel Prize." He glances at the TV and sees his own animated form as part of a cartoon show, accompanied by the sing-song lyrics: "Then he died / Maybe someone cried / But not his ex-bride...
...Playwright Shahid Nadeem was a three-time political prisoner in Pakistan, and it shows. All seven works in his newly translated Selected Plays share extreme sensibilities, depicting a universe of overcrowded jail cells, slums and parched villages in which the blackest of deeds are committed. The most ambitious work, a historical drama chronicling the life of the 18th century Sufi poet Bulleh Shah (spelled "Bulha" in the play) grapples, in the words of one character, with the "dark side of the human self" - exile, fatwas, persecution, genocide. There's murder in The Third Knock, forced abortion in Acquittal, sex trafficking...
...crossdress in order to be closer to the men they love.Meanwhile, set against these two romances is the production of “Romeo and Juliet” that Tino Cagnotto is directing. His project is to reinstate Shakespeare, who hired street actors to perform his plays, as a playwright for the common people. He declares to Bobo at the onset of his project, “Bobo, I’m going to stage the play in which the Bard taught us to overcome social convention, in which he showed us that the power of love cannot be thwarted...
...Kline ’09. Originally known as the Harvard Dramatic Club, HRDC was founded in 1908 with a mission to create a permanent standing theater community at Harvard. It distinguished itself from other universities’ dramatic clubs through its commitment to both student actors and student playwrights. Its first production, entitled “The Promised Land,” was written by A. Davis, class of 1907, and encouraged the vision of “an all Harvard production.” The hard work of years past has endured, and HRDC has expanded and thrived...