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...Gurney’s own band, The Hay Brigade, have strengthened folk music’s presence at Harvard. But while tradition plays an important role in Gurney’s music, he is not afraid to push at its boundaries. “We are trying to show how different kinds of music have more in common than you might think,” Gurney says. “Bluegrass, jazz, country and Celtic—they can meet up and find some common ground.” And just as traditional music has expanded its reach among Harvard...
...says. “It’s not about the story; it’s about the dramaturgy of what happened.” His own thesis—an original script for his play “O O O The Rodeo Show!”—plays on these ideas. “It is an allegory for America but also an actual rodeo show that takes 13 years to perform.” The script was so surreal, he says, that one of his thesis readers called it a novel rather than a play...
...makes sense, spreading the search far and wide for inspiration and not staying confined to the literal world of play,” she says. Laubacher’s latest endeavor was designing the set of “The Space Between,” a complex and multilayered show that demands an equally multi-textured stage, complete with two moving trees and a raised platform on which videos are projected. “The trees function as the origin of human knowledge, like in the story of Eden,” she says. “The physical form...
...think,” says director Jason R. Vartikar ’11. “The Tragedy of Hamlet”—not to be confused with the more traditional version being staged this weekend in Leverett House’s Old Library—will show in the New College Theatre through Sunday, and it makes significant changes to the Bard’s original manuscript. “We are judging Shakespeare in a way that Shakespeare isn’t judged,” Vartikar says. “[Shakespeare] is almost a religion...
...handle the truth? In their debut show, “The Truth,” Freestyle Electronica plans to find out. Performing at the Queen’s Head tomorrow at 4 p.m., three Pforzheimer musicians will join forces to create a fresh new sound in the media of both rap and electronica. Emanuel Beica ’11, Nathan C.M. Leiby ’10, and Lev A. Shaket ’10 will use their music to test the audience’s capacity to hear “the truth” about politics and war, among...