Word: performancee
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Last Tuesday was Club Night at the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and I attended the performance as the guest of a close friend who is a member of one of the female social organizations on campus. Club Night, a long-standing Pudding tradition, is open only to members of Harvard's...
Several minutes into the performance, a person sitting three rows behind me yelled "fag" as a performer in a flamboyant peacock costume came on stage. My friend pressed my leg with her hand, knowing the anger that was welling up inside me. Other heckling eventually drowned out the offending comment...
So I've been asked a few times whether I think Matt Damon, Class of 1992, was an appropriate host for last week's Cultural Rhythms and I barely think it deserves any more thought. Matt Damon's a nice boy and all, but what a lame-o choice. In...
But what those who draw a line between literature and theater parallel to the line between work and play fail to see is that the play of drama is fundamentally a type of work. Tragedy, for instance, is exclusively a dramatic art form, or so most performance scholars will argue...
Indeed, play of any type is almost always a type of work. For children, play is a necessary means of mimicing and thereby coming to understand the world. It is a way to work things out, to learn, and to grow. If we are to define work as the aestheticists...