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...Birthday Party” is part of a movement in the history of theatre which embraces the absurd, and in turn, seeks to unsettle the audience by disorienting them with a menacing and horrifying atmosphere. “We are expecting a sense of confusion from the audience?? because even we have a sense of confusion [about the play],” says Bryce J. Gilfillian ’12, the Assistant Stage Manager. “No one can precisely say what Pinter is attempting to achieve with ‘The Birthday Party...
...distance himself emotionally enables “The History Boys” to dig deeper into the student-teacher relationship, divulging the unspoken sexual tensions that can develop when malleable adolescents love and respect their role models a little too much.This well-cast group of boys quickly traps the audience??s attention with their slapstick humor and catchy one-liners; however, they soon prove to be more than a bunch of goofballs. Each one bright and opinionated, they straddle the line between embracing 1980s counter-culture, and respecting the old-world tradition embedded in British society.Fueling their taste...
...performance art, which takes place in the public sphere. Some of it is like that of Improv Everywhere, which occurs just for the pleasurable (if perplexing) spectacle. Other performance art is like that of Tehching Hsieh, which is profoundly political and aims to effect a change in its audience??s consciousness. But the art that I’m writing here about is more than just performance, it is performative. I’m writing about the art that transformed Bogota, Colombia from a capital of corruption and crime into a city with crime and murder rates lower...
...cooking culture of Cambridge,” said Jimmy C. Yang ’09, who took classes in French and Italian cooking last summer. The first stop was the former home of chef Julia Child—credited with popularizing French cuisine among an American audience??on 103 Irving St., just a few blocks east of the Science Center. Although the students could not enter the historic three-story abode, as it is now a private residence, they circulated a photograph of Child’s kitchen, which was moved in its entirety to the Smithsonian National...
...literally merged. Window dressers began to use actual works of art from emerging artists as the background to their displays. Fun fact: it was in show windows, not art museums, that artists such as Warhol and Jasper Johns first got the opportunity to present their works to a larger audience??alongside mannequins dressed in the latest styles, of course. For the average American, then, walking down the streets of New York was like walking through the MoMA. Pop Art’s legacy is made manifest in that five-dollar Hanes t-shirt emblazoned with Bush?...