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...juggled her many responsibilities, she never failed to read my brother and me stories before she tucked us into bed. These weren’t simply fairy tales??they weren’t just Dr. Seuss, Disney, or Humpty Dumpty. She also read us biographies—stories about JFK’s hope for a better America, Abraham Lincoln’s vision for a unified nation, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s fight for a nation healed and restored. And each night as I fell asleep listening to the dream...
...much easier to sit back and have the film happen to you, instead of trying to piece together the characters’ fragmented stories. And at the movie’s end, when the last chance for the audience to become engaged disappears, “Southland Tales?? becomes a self-involved riddle that most viewers won’t want to solve...
...he’s awesome. Simpson admits that he’s not much of a hip-hop enthusiast, but Brinkman’s brand of rap—literary hip-hop, or lit-hop—is relevant to the medievalist; Brinkman translates “The Canterbury Tales?? into the language of contemporary youth culture. “He preserves the kind of brilliance and surprise, the kind of linguistic pyrotechnics one finds in Chaucer,” says Simpson, who had publicized Brinkman’s originally planned Oct. 5 visit to Harvard...
...residing in hospitals….through theatrical performance and interaction on a level that is age-appropriate.” Much like any other form of children’s entertainment, the group performs shows with seemingly simple themes—things like “Mixed-Up Fairy Tales?? and “Pirates”—that ultimately serve to teach the children valuable lessons, such as the importance of friendship and hard work. Unique to HSTP, however, is its interactive aspect. An integral part of the show is that the players solicit...
Marcel Marceau, the world’s greatest mime, dazzles audiences first in a solo act, and then with company in three “fantasy tales??—“The Wandering Monk,” “The Masquerade Ball” and “The Tiger.” Tickets $45, members $35, student rush $12. Oct. 1 and 2 at 8 p.m. Oct. 3 at 2 p.m. Oct 3, 5, 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle...