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Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

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Go to Hades with ‘Estrella’ & Bette Davis

Contributing Reporter
Published Friday, March 28, 2008

Over 2,500 years ago, the goddess Persephone was abducted by Hades and dragged into the underworld. There, she awaited rescue and fended off her abductor’s seduction, save for the final consumption of pomegranate seeds. In present times, Persephone does more than eat just a few pomegranate seeds. She gets knocked up and doesn’t pick up the phone when mama calls.

At least, she does according to Reese Smith DRA ’10.

Smith takes the ancient Greek myth and interprets it in a daring new way with her play “Estrella Cruz,” directed by Jesse Jou DRA ’10 at the Yale Cabaret....

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