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Well, they don't call it the Ex for nothing. Questionable meanings and meaningful questions form the heart of the singularly brave and bizarre "The Hyacinth Macaw," a challenging play filled with vibrant language, energetic acting and the disconcerting sense that often there are times when neither audience nor actors know exactly what is happening. Ultimately, "Macaw" affirms that we are challenged most when the familiar is made strange, but at the same time illustrates some dangers in doing...
...diverse group of community members, students and professors filled the hyacinth-scented room, chatting and eating dinner and sweets...
Some of the bodies lie motionless on the Ugandan shore. Others float in the breaking waves or bob against tangled beds of water hyacinth. Most are mutilated: limbs slashed, heads missing, a scattering of pale forms indistinguishable from one another except the ways in which they died. The corpses, swept as many as 60 miles by the rain-swollen Kagera River in Rwanda to the edges of Lake Victoria, are the latest evidence of a savage...
...York City by a reader of Shakespeare bent on sharing with the New World every species mentioned by the bard. Today millions of starlings consume and defile our crops and terrorize native bluebirds. So too, we have inadvertently unleashed an invasion of plants, among them, kudzu, hydrilla and water hyacinth...
...pastures surrounding the ponds and marshes of the Pantanal, herds of capybaras, the world's largest rodents, munch on the native grasses. Hyacinth macaws, the world's largest parrots, nest in trees and crack palm seeds disgorged by cattle, which eat the fruit around the nut. According to Charles Munn, an ornithologist with Wildlife Conservation International, the cattle fill a niche formerly occupied by extinct giant sloths, which dined on palm seeds thousands of years before the first Portuguese settlers arrived. This happy coincidence is one reason why humans here get along with the 80 species of mammals, 230 kinds...