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...long as I'm parsing plot here, what happened to the friend they left alone in the woods with a possible Norman Bates? She's trying to keep him diverted while her posse is in the process of demolishing his car. By the time they get back, she might be dead. As Shakespeare would have said, "Jeez...
...upcoming “3001: A Space Odyssey,” noting triumphantly, “He will redefine the astronaut!” Conway’s repeated confidence schemes drag on repetitively until there is no choice other than to develop a lackluster semblance of a plot. Frank Rich ’71 (played by William Hootkins) is fooled only temporarily by Conway, who Rich later realizes bears no resemblance to Kubrick. Rich tips off the New York Times to Conway’s schemes, but not before we are subjected to several more of them...
...violence of the plot is not lost on the Actors’ Shakespeare Project show, which is produced by Sara Stackhouse and runs through April 22. Screams, darkness, ropes, rocks, and a round, ground-level stage greet the audience throughout the play—and that is the set. The simplicity of the stage (designed by Gammons) serves to enhance the symbolism of the few props that the actors have, and the production makes full use of the versatility that is possible with such a stage design. For example, strategically placed ropes represent forced violence between characters. Simple rocks...
...plot of the play, which ran at the Loeb Experimental Theatre through March 24, is well known: Fearing that Julius Caesar (Mead) may be crowned Emperor of Rome, a group of Roman citizens, led by Brutus (Jon E. Gentry ‘07) and Cassius (Alexander J. Berman ‘10), plan to assassinate...
...Some were a little more drastic. The adaptation eliminated one of the Triumvirate entirely, and cut the speech of another to a few lines. The result was that the play was more narrowly focused on Brutus and Cassius than it is in some versions, an interesting shift. But the plot would have been more compelling with a little less redundancy of scenes in the first half (in large part Shakespeare’s fault, to be fair) and a little more exposition in the second...