His latest fascination?
“My new little passion these days is the Greeks,” he says, pointing to his recently acquired collection of Greek art and sculpture in his Cambridge apartment.
In addition to sponsoring a lecture series in conjunction with the the politically charged production of the Greek tragedy Children of Herakles—scheduled to go up in the ART in January—Carr’s desk at home is littered with plays by Euripides and biographies of Greek playwrights.
Carr says he is considering producing a film somehow connected with ancient Greek drama, continuing on his interest in filmmaking as a young student.
“It’s just a matter of waking up in the morning and having fun things to do,” he says.
—Staff writer J. Hale Russell can be reached a jrussell@fas.harvard.edu.