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“Venus in Fur” borrows from a classic literary trope, the frame narrative — presenting a play about a play — to relate the tale of director Thomas Novachek’s struggle to find an actress toperform the leading role in his sadomasochistic play until he meets Vanda Jordan, a brash but enthusiastic aspiring actress. “Venus in Fur,” written by David Ives and directed by Julia Hammer ’15, develops a darker perspective as it examines the relationship between Thomas and Vanda.
“Does anyone want to go see a play tomorrow night? It’s called ‘SMILE’ and it’s a one-man show about depression!”None of my friends respond to my message, even after I add the qualifiers, “but it’s a comedy!!” and “it's also freee!”
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Dear Sexpert,
For this two-part series, Street spoke to five first-generation college students about their experiences at Princeton. In addition to being first-generation, some of the students are also first-generation Americans; others are not. One is not American at all. They hail from places as close as Brooklyn, N.Y. to as far as Espartinas, Spain. Their majors range from psychology to operations research and financial engineering, and they dream of everything from reforming education policy to traveling into space.
You feel a tepid blanket of morning light gently tickle the surface of your cracked, moistureless skin, and you shudder, vigorously, underneath your covers. You rise like a sleeping giant, stretching out the battered limbs that have weathered meng shots and repeated falls on icy pathways to pull back the blinds from your window. It’s snowing.
In the shadow of Fine Hall’s imposing tower lies a curious steel-sheathed building, which in 2008 marked the beginning of a dynamic new space at Princeton. Besides having an iconic, abstract modern design, the Lewis Library also challenges the idea of what a library should be — but not without controversy.
“Ruan Lingyu” is a play based on the true story of a Chinese silent film star of the same name who rocketed to fame, grew embroiled in scandal and committed suicide at the age of 24. Princeton Chinese Theatre presents this tragedy in the Class of 1970 Theatre in Whitman College, exploring themes of love, betrayal and the murky intersection between a celebrity’s private and public lives, to mixed success.
This Saturday, alumni who have found success in the entertainment industry, as well as other industry professionals unaffiliated with the University, will arrive on campus to participate in a conference titled “Careers in Hollywood: Script to Screen & Everything in Between.”
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Dear Sexpert,
When the curtain falls, we applaud the actors, the directors and the producers for a job well done. But often, we forget the person who made sure the curtain fell at the right moment, lit the actor’s face in the most flattering way or worked for hours to ensure the costumes fit both the actors’ and the director's vision. These people make up a small community of students on campus who work in technical theater. In high demand and often juggling multiple shows at once, these students turn the visions of dance companies, theater groups and directors into reality.
Rising from a lawn shared with the Springdale Golf Club, the Graduate College has become a mysterious building that eludes undergraduates, situated so far from the rest of the University that most would describe it as off-campus.
“Do you know about the Waggle dance?” he asked.“No ... ” I said.“Oh. My. God.”On Sunday, I met the BEE Team. I met about a dozen people, each of whom seemed to have an unending knowledge of everything bee-related. For example, the “waggle dance,” as Ben Denzer ’15, former BEE Team president, explained to me, is a complicated — yet simple — way for a bee to let other bees know where a particularly nectar-filled flower is located. According to Denzer, a bee will circle around in a figure eight and waggle its butt, pointing other bees to the flower using the sun as a reference.“If you start looking into bees, it’s just like a never-ending pit of awesomeness,” he said.Last Sunday, the team held a mead-making event in the Brown Co-Op. Essentially honey alcohol, mead is made by fermenting honey with water, sometimes with added raisins or lavender. Although the BEE Team officers now feel as though they are experts in the art of mead-making, they will not actually get to taste the mead they made on Sunday, since it takes up to three years to ferment properly.“The goal is for current freshmen to get to taste the mead that they bottled when they’re seniors. They get to have mead from the bees from that year when they joined the club,” Denzer said.After the event, I sat down with Denzer and Louisa Willis ’16, current copresident, to talk about the history, mission and day-to-day life of the BEE Team.The BEE team was founded in Fall 2009 by Michael Smith ’10 — affectionately called “Panamike” as he was originally from Panama — who, Denzer said, maintained his own hives back home. Upon his arrival at Princeton, Smith wanted to continue beekeeping and founded the club at the start of his senior year to do just that. Originally developed as a means for Smith to complete his senior thesis — which was, of course, about bees — the BEE Team has maintained the hives ever since and continued Panamike’s tradition of studying and loving bees.Neither Denzer nor Willis had done beekeeping before arriving at Princeton, but that didn’t stop them from falling in love with it.Both Denzer and Willis said their favorite part of being on the BEE Team is visiting the hives, which they do twice a month. The hives are located just past the boathouse, a 10-minute walk from Frist Campus Center. The BEE Team usually visits the hives on Saturdays or Sundays twice a month at 2 p.m. The trips last about an hour and a half and often consist of both regular members as well as new students and curious community members.Once they get there, they open up the hives and look for new “baby bees,” a sign that the queen is still alive and the bees are well. Then they might look through the frames and see bees at different life stages, or try to find the queen bee. Sometimes, they have to give the bees medication to prevent them from getting attacked by mites, a problem that has gotten worse over the last 15 years.“Throughout that whole process, [we’re] just telling them cool facts about bees,” Denzer said. “They’re all like little awesome robots that are doing the exact same thing.”“You approach the hive, and you can feel you’re there, because there’s a little vibration in the air because all their wings are flapping, and you can hear it,” Willis said.When they asked me if I would be interested in joining them, I expressed a little bit of concern about visiting a hive — I once got stung by a wasp on my eyelid when I was eight years old, and I still haven’t fully recovered from the experience. But both Denzer and Willis reassured me and said that no one, besides officers, had ever been stung. “It’s like the bees just know who will still love them,” Willis said.“I’ve only been stung twice here, but they were both because I was being stupid,” Willis said.The BEE Team usually uses the honey they collect for events they host — like the mead-making one last Sunday — and packages the rest to sell to community members. With that money, they buy new equipment.“The architecture department really loves our honey,” Denzer, an architecture concentrator, said.Denzer and Willis said that while they’re happy with the progress the BEE Team has made over the past four years, they still have high hopes for the future of the club — perhaps adding more hives, selling more honey or working with other student groups to inform the greater student community about bees.“It would be really awesome if everyone went to the hives once when they’re [at Princeton],” Willis said.
Theatre Intime will present three original plays written by current Princeton undergraduates as part of its annual Student Playwrights Festival this weekend. The three works were selected out of about 20 submissions in the beginning of February, according to Intime’s original projects director Jack Moore ’15, and will be performed Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the Hamilton Murray Theater at 8 p.m.
“Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrotein his 1833 novel “Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea.” Historically, poets often cite music as inspiration, and musicians often consider their work a form of poetry. These comparisons link the two arts but beg the question —what would it look like to put them side-by-side, not in the form of a song, but by presenting both disciplines together while still preserving the individual sanctity of each? The Princeton University Concerts’s upcoming event, featuring Grammy-winning pianist Richard Goode and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams, will offer students an opportunity to experience these arts together from two masters of their respective crafts.
Let’s be real: You’ve always wanted someone to give you a shiny trophy for being funny. On March 1, Princeton’s very own Quipfire! Improv Comedy achieved that dream by placing second in the national College Improv Tournament, hosted by Chicago Improv Productions. Street spoke to group members Amy Solomon ’14, Adam Mastroianni ’14, Nick Luzarraga ’15 and Lauren Frost ’16 about their experiences at the tournament.
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