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...check Friday night as part of the Theatricals’ initiative to improve arts education in local schools. The five-minute event, which took place at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, preceded the high school’s 7:30 p.m. production of “The Madwoman of Chaillot.” Started three years ago, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Fund for Cultural Enrichment has subsidized tickets for over 3,400 Cambridge Public School students spanning grades K-12 to attend theatrical performances, cultural events and museum exhibitions. “Every year I’ve been...
...This can give rise to the stridency of Voodoo Child, which recalls the madwoman wailings of Yoko Ono (Lim's teenage heroine), but at its best her music communes powerfully with another realm. Commissioned by France's Ensemble Intercontemporain in 2001, Machine for Contacting the Dead was performed as part of a Paris museum show centering on the 2,500-year-old tomb of the Chinese Marquis Yi of Zeng. Among the objects excavated at his tomb in central Hubei province were 65 bronze bells as well as a courtly orchestra of drums, mouth organs and flutes...
...Faust, Alan Zackheim ’06 shows able delivery, although he appears emotionally neutered in some of his scenes, particularly in those with Gretchen. Malaika Butoyi ’05 shows range by convincingly playing, in succession, a dry academic, a sexy starlet, and an imprisoned madwoman; her skill is such that she even manages to make the madwoman’s insanity touching. As Mephistopheles, Aoife Spillane-Hinks ’06 shows herself to be one of Harvard’s better student actors, speaking crisply and radiating both disdain for the mortals with whom she must...
...finds oneself focusing excessively on the unfortunate prosthetic nose Kidman affects in order to look more like the novelist. And wondering why the screenwriter, David Hare, and the director, Stephen Daldry, turn Woolf, a woman of incisive mind, into a hapless ditherer. Gentlemen, she was only a part-time madwoman. Most of the time, she possessed one of the most interesting sensibilities of her century...
...doesn’t tell anyone, but I’ve been telling everyone like a madwoman,” Bullock said...