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...group is called “Audrey de Smith and the Elegant Touch” and their lair is as enigmatic as their name. Beanbags are littered with odd electronic equipment, and one wall is adorned with an abstract contraption of small black blocks and string...
Rockwell’s lifelong affair with the arts began during his undergraduate years at Harvard, where he says he “did odd things”—including working at WHRB, participating in the madrigal club and singing in the chorus of the Harvard-Radcliffe Opera...
...confronting the crises of middle age. The Asian American Association Players presents Philip K. Gotanda’s play about Harry Kitamura, a successful law professor, who finds his life and marriage unraveling when he researches a paper on his involvement in the 1970’s campus strike. Odd characters with violent and sexual impulses begin to invade his dreams, spilling over into his waking life so that he can no longer tell the two worlds apart. A wildly fantastic ride into obsession and revelation. Thursday, May 1, 8 p.m. Tickets $5, $4 students, $4 seniors, $3 Adams House...
...comparisons to Guest’s earlier work, This Is Spinal Tap. While Tap focuses on the disaster-prone tour of a brainless metal band, Wind centers around a disaster-prone tribute concert in memory of a late, legendary folk music producer. The premise is just the sort of odd episode that Guest has mined so skillfully in the past, but this time around he maintains little of the comic consistency that he has previously captured, settling instead for ham-handed punch-lines and tonally confused subplots. Guest’s distinctive mockumentary technique is not yet stale, but this...
...point in Identity, a young woman played by Clea Duvall comments that the situation of the movie’s ten central characters is oddly reminiscent of a movie where ten strangers are all on an island, realize they have some strange connection and then start dying one by one. She is referring, of course, to …And Then There Were None, based on the classic Agatha Christie novel. It’s doubtful that a twenty-something would be familiar with any of the book’s three film adaptations, all which were made before...