Produced by Josh Perry '00

Loeb Experimental Theater

April 19-22

STORY: Actors join mixed-media crew as "language designers" in this experiment in form and content. Here Be Dragons plans to use a variety of story-telling techniques (with influences from Japanese noh, puppet theater and fantasy film) to narrate a pre-existing "arc" of events. Plastic surgery, sky lore, the high carnival, the ship of fools and Antarctic exploration are woven together through the use of masks, video, still photography, soundscapes, scents, puppetry and graphic design. Combining all these elements, Director Brett Egan aims to communicate concerns about mapmaking and subjecthood.

THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE

By Rodgers and Hart

Directed by Rachel Eisenhaure '02

Produced by Wei Tse Lim '02

Agassiz Theater

April 20-22

STORY: The script for the musical is almost identical to that for Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus, written in the first century AD and known in another reincarnation as Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. A pair of identical twins are separated at birth; the same thing happens to their slaves. Unaware of the existence of their mirror images, one twin and his slave stumble unknowingly into their brothers' city. If you don't know what happens, you can guess: chaos.