Author: Erika Mercer It is four o'clock in the morning and all of your party guests have retired, leaving you sitting alone in your room to view the mess of spilt drinks, strewn streamers, pretzel crumbs and deflated balloons. You reflect on the successful party -- its extravagance, its hilarity, its ...
Author: Edward Pickering Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" strikes contemporary readers as a work of remarkable prescience. Published in 1955, the novel unfolds in French-occupied Vietnam during the French Indochina War of 1946-1954. The main characters are Fowler, a veteran British journalist, middle ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller On Monday, 1,004 theatre groups in 59 countries, including the Middlebury College Department of Theater, presented staged readings of the first anti-war play ever written: Aristophanes' "Lysistrata."The worldwide event was set in motion by Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bower as ...
Author: Richard Lawless "Modern" was the key word in Joel Sachs' astounding performance at Middlebury's Center for the Arts this past Friday night. The Julliard professor's repertoire for Friday's concert consisted solely of modern piano pieces, all written between the years of 1929 and 1996. He began ...
Author: Michael Hatch "Y Tu Mama Tambien," written and directed by Alfonso Cuaron, is the raunchy yet touching look at the waning years of adolescence portrayed via the classic road trip, screened at Dana Auditorium on Saturday. A pair of frantic goodbye-sex scenes opens the story and sets the theme ...
Author: Lucie Greene For anyone who has been at Middlebury College for a while, it would be very unusual not to have at some stage encountered a performance by Ari Joseph '05. A polite, unassuming guy, Joseph has--since his arrival at Middlebury College in September 2001--amassed a large individual ...
Author: Daniel Roda In order to stifle my impulse to avoid music that is so well-produced, I had to realize that The Saw Doctors have been at the top of the Irish charts since they put out the single, "Useta Lover," which dominated the number one slot in Ireland for nine weeks in 1989 and was Ireland's ...
Author: Elizabeth Braunstein Shocking portrayals of violence and love through surrealist and humorous scenes comprised "I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest," two one-act plays performed on Friday, Feb. 20 and Saturday, Feb. 21. The first play, "You Belong To Me," written by Keith Redden and directed ...
Author: Padma Govindan Roman Polanski's "The Pianist," based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a renowned pianist for Polish radio in the 1930s and a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto and occupation, is many things, but sentimental it is not. In the movie, Szpilman -- singled out for survival by the ...
Author: Erika Mercer Imagine a modern-day bard -- a contemporary version of the shy, wayfaring musician who once traversed long distances, singing tales and stopping only now and then for food and bed in an unfamiliar village. Unlike days past, the modern bard would no longer carry his possessions in ...
Author: Richard Lawless One would be hard-pressed to spend one's four-year tenure at Middlebury College without witnessing an a cappella group perform. In fact, Middlebury has so many of these groups that entering First-years might have a bit of trouble remembering them all. So let's go through a quick ...
Author: Edward Pickering Phillip Parotti's "The Trojan Generals Talk" and "The Greeks Generals Talk" brim with imagination and narrative power. In these two complementary books, Parotti imagines conversations with the various generals, now elderly men, who fought in the Trojan War. In each chapter a ...
Author: Jonathan White When I walked through the door of the Imperial Theatre in New York two weekends ago to see "Les MisÈrables" one last time, I was disheartened to see that the role of Jean Valjean would be played by an understudy. After 16 years of performances on Broadway, "Les Miz" bids au revoir ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller On Friday, Feb. 14, Anne Bogart, one of the most influential directors in contemporary American theater, spoke to a packed audience in Wright Memorial Theater. She has become well-known through the work that she and Tadashi Suzuki have done with the SITI Company, which they ...
Author: Edward Pickering In "My Dog Skip," Willie Morris remembers the dog to whom he was attached as a boy in small-town Mississippi during the 1940s and 50s. Though thin in dimension, this book is boundless in the love it contains. The author's affection for Skip -- a fox-terrier of singular intelligence ...
Author: Crystalyn Radcliffe A reception was held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. last Monday in the Johnson Memorial Building Gallery to mark the opening of the art show entitled, "Mary Smyth Duffy: Retrospective," honoring the artistic work of former Middlebury employee, Mary Duffy. If there is one word to describe ...
Author: Richard Lawless It is not unusual to hear the classic melodies of Beethoven, Haydn or Mozart emanating from Middlebury College's Concert Hall on a Saturday night, but it is quite unusual to hear these melodies played on instruments built and used around the time these composers lived. The Eisenstadt ...
Author: Erika Mercer Imagine you are on a boat for several weeks, floating somewhere in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight. Some days are still and peaceful -- you can hear the water lap softly against the hull of the boat and feel the gentle spray of salt-water on your cheeks. Other days ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes Giving voices to the vaginas of women across the world on Valentine's Day, 19 Middlebury College female students let their vaginas speak at Eve Ensler's '75 "The Vagina Monologues." The two performances in McCullough marked the fifth anniversary of the show at the College, infusing ...
Author: Alexandra Hay I sit down once more in Artist-in-Residence Amy Chavasse's comfortable, small office to discuss how her adventure in Cuba turned out. It only takes a few questions to get Chavasse -- eager to share the amazing experience she and her dancers had in Cuba -- started. Describing Cuba ...