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Amy E. Schwartz
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The two masks of Harvard drama
W hen William Paul Rauch '84 and Paul Wellman Warner '84 first came to Harvard, both of them wanted to
A Voice of One's Own
T O READ Margaret Atwood's own voice--as opposed to one of the many voices of her fictional and poetic personae--is
Love's Verbosity
T HE MAINSTAGE is still making the same old mistake. It's impossible to appreciate the considerable amount of fine acting
A Harvard Nancy Drew
T HINK BACK to the people in your freshman seminar. How well did you ever actually know any of them?
Belleboys in Love
Jungle Belles Hasty Pudding Theatricals #136 Book and Lyrics by Anthony Calnek '84 and Alison Taylor '84 Music by David
Power Shortage
C HOOSING TO PRESENT a play as good as Ibsen's Hedda Gabler --as the Quincy House Drama Society must have
Twisted but Truthful
A T HIS FREQUENT BEST, playwright Sam Shepard uses grisly explorations of family frictions and anxieties to roil up the
Her Honor, The Lord Mayor
S ALLY RIDE probably put it best when she got around to commenting on the media adoration which, several weeks
Ordinary People
H ARVARD AGREED more than a year ago that there was something called "sexual harassment" and that, on the simplest
Fear and Loathing in Suburbia
A FAINT UNEASINESS hangs over all Frederick Barthelme's short stories, a subtle, inescapable sense of skewed perspective Even reading snippets
Scandalous Fun
A UDIENCES at English comedies written before 1800 usually spend the first act on the edge of their seats, so
Juvenile Delinquency
E VERY EVENING this week at the Loeb, upwards of 40 talented people have convened to pour their creative energies
Pure Will
T HE MOST STRIKING theatrical effect in the Boston Shakespeare Company's current production of Julius Caesar is one that Shakespeare
Fishing for an Answer
S OME OF US, the sensible ones, never doubted that Monty Python had an inside line on the meaning of
Make-Believe
A pre-housing lottery maniac once described Lowell House "a place where you'll get a lot of wear out of a
