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...Lucas' text, though rife with wit and biting social observation, is hampered by its tendency to break into long sections of on-line chat. The problems of this inherently artificial form of communication are made even worse by clichd lines about safe sex, homophobia and unconditional love; with all of this linguistic burden to carry, it's no surprise that the script occasionally loses track of its plot, awkwardly stumbling over a few After School Special messages. Thankfully, though, director Eric Engel (Director of Memorial Hall/Sanders Theatre) still manages to blend Lucas' words into an (almost) seamless narrative journey...
...Boys from Syracuse sings and dances its way into the Agassiz Theater this weekend. Directed by Rachel Eisenhaure '02, Rodgers and Hart's jazzy 1965 tribute to Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors uses the plot (and, in some places, borrows heavily from the text) of the earlier play. Two sets of identical twins-one the servant and one the master-are separated in a shipwreck during infancy. Their father/master, Aegean, dedicates his life to reuniting his splintered family. To complicate matters, he arrives in the forbidden city of Ephesus, for which he is sentenced to die. That very...
...from the Garden of Eden and Judith's defeat of the Assyrian army may not have much in common. But in Divine Mirrors: The Madonna Unveiled, curated by Melissa Katz at the Davis Museum at Wellesley, they do. The exhibit combines works of art on these subjects with a text rich in Biblical reference and historical detail to show changing perceptions of the Virgin Mary in different cultures over the past nine centuries...
...Katz's show, the artworks serve the text and not the other way around. Some connections she makes are more readily apparent than others. Marc Chagall's hand-colored etching, "Abraham Sacrificing Isaac," is used to describe Mary's obedience and devotion to God through a comparison to Abraham, who was prepared to sacrifice his son in obedience to God's will...
...various accoutrements, it's only fitting that time is what's sticking in our collective craw. Things past. Beginnings, middles, and especially impending ends. It is our tenth issue. To this point, we've filled a lot of boxes, so to speak, with quite a few mounds of text and a large number of megabytes of photos...