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...dramatically. Some saw a princess martyred by publicity, hounded unto death by the cameras that loved her so and that then feasted on her funeral. Others blamed the family that drew her into its royal orbit, expecting her to glow with the pale fire of reflected glory, and later cast her aside when she blazed forth as a star...
...It’s unusual for plays at Harvard, and beyond, to have a fully female cast,” Birnbaum explains. Birnbaum, who went to an all-girls high school, was attracted to the play because of this aspect...
...social experiment,” according to Birnbaum, asking what would happen were men to disappear. Set in rural Spain, the cloistered home of matron Bernarda Alba, played by Alexandra C. Palma ’08, is rife with internal female conflict and external societal tensions. The cast, which is comprised of nine female actors, includes Ellen C. Quigley ’07 as Poncia, a servant, and Olga I. Zhulina ’09, as the fiery youngest daughter Adela...
...very nice tension between saying go forward into the future…and also looking back, the tension of what’s lovely and needs to be preserved,” Streep says.“Prairie” addresses that tension on several levels, notably by casting the budding multi-media sensation Lindsay Lohan as Streep’s angst-ridden daughter. The 19-year-old drama queen earned the respect of the veteran cast, in spite of recent negative press attention for her eating habits and partying.“I think it’s very...
...After his apparent defeat in Parliamentary elections by just 25,000 or so votes among 38 million ballots cast, some observers were expecting fireworks and demands for a nationwide recount. But Berlusconi, in his first public comments Monday night, calmly stated that he will concede defeat only once all the contested ballots are verified, adding that Italy might want to consider Germany's example of a national unity government...