Luis Santoyo-MejÃa
Luis Santoyo-MejÃa
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‘Ghosts’ fades in light
“And there we are, the lot of us, so miserably afraid of the light,” Helene Alving confides in Pastor Manders. This production of Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts,” however, does not share its character’s fear.
Valentine’s greatest hits and misses
Valentine’s greatest hits and misses
Fugard’s latest: Pathos in red bike
“Coming Home,” celebrated playwright Athol Fugard’s latest play, begins in an abandoned one-room house located in rural Nieu Bethesda, part of South Africa’s Karoo region.
Briefly: New music, new music!
As part of a composer-pianist concert series, a group of nine young musicians — current and former Yale School of Music and Harvard students — will be performing original solo compositions for piano tomorrow at Firehouse 12. “Each [pianist] brings a unique musical voice and perspective on composing and performing,” Douglas Fisk MUS ’06, the series’ organizer and participating musician, wrote in an e-mail. Firehouse 12 is located at 45 Crown St. Tickets are $10 at the door. The concert starts at 8 p.m and lasts about an hour and a half.
French by French in French for French
A tragedy in five acts, Jean Racine’s “Britannicus,” as directed by Max Kahn ’09, is a calculated exercise in silence, movement, sound and lighting.
One cop, two cop, sexy cop, hot cop
Police officers wearing short shorts suggestively handle their candy cane–shaped batons. A witch skips in and delivers her characteristic screech. A woman — red horns on her head, red tail dangling from her lower back — speaks with a French/German accent. A cranky janitor wearing the classic Groucho Marx disguise unexpectedly snaps at two sets of matching, extravagantly dressed twins.
O come all ye ‘Faith’-ful
“Faith Healer” is a play governed by the idiosyncratic memories of its three characters: Frank, his wife Grace and his business manager Teddy. In the four long monologues that form the play, these characters elaborate on, and sometimes contradict, each other’s versions of the truth.