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'Sorrows and Rejoicings' at McCarter Theatre

'Sorrows and Rejoicings' at McCarter Theatre

The newest play written and directed by world-renowned South African playwright, Athol Fugard, "Sorrows and Rejoicings" had its world premier last week at McCarter Theatre.It is the story of two South African women, the black, Marta Barends and the white, Allison Olivier, who try to come to terms with the role that the other played in the life of the man that they both loved, Dawid Olivier.

NEWS | 05/17/2001

Indian Cuisine Enters Princeton's Dining Scene

Masala Grill 19 Chambers St. (609) 921-0500 Lunch: 11:45-3:00 p.m. Dinner: 5:00-10:00 p.m. Overall: *** Food: **** Decor: *** Service: **Diners with a craving for curries search no further.

NEWS | 05/17/2001

Opera fosters 'stronger' bonds in colleges

To best accommodate the 500 additional students that will be phased into the undergraduate student body, administrators and students have been busy evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the current residential college system.More than just dorms and dining halls, the residential colleges offer a packed calendar of social opportunities for freshmen and sophomores, as well as an informal setting in which underclassmen can rub elbows with faculty members and graduate students who serve as masters and faculty fellows.Sometimes, as in the case of Mathey College faculty fellow Albert Viola and students Estratios Minakakis '02, Majel Connery '01 and Lida Le '02, these interactions kindle harmonious relationships and even lead to creative collaborations.

NEWS | 04/25/2001

Orchestra

The Princeton University Orchestra will be performing "The Planets" under the direction of its conductor, Michael Pratt, this weekend in Richardson Auditorium at 8 p.m.

NEWS | 04/25/2001

How an encounter in Micawber made writer Doug Wright a sadist

"Monsieur Bouloir was a man whose sexual appetites might discreetly be described as 'post-mortem.' A habitue of cemeteries, his proudest conquest was that of a maid six decades his senior, deceased a dozen years.

NEWS | 04/25/2001

Shakespearean 'Who dun' it' takes stage

Who dun' it? Shakespearean critics revel in the debate of trying to pin down who's responsible for the blood shed in "Macbeth." Lady Macbeth?

NEWS | 04/25/2001

Pipe dream becomes reality

"The rock and roll dream is still alive," proclaimed Jon Barnes '03 when asked about his membership in one of the newest bands on the Princeton campus.

NEWS | 04/25/2001

The spicy side of Princeton cuisine

Chuck's Spring Street Cafe is one of Princeton's hidden jewels as it subtly harbors many qualities that are lacking in many other restaurants in town ? a quality variety of food, served in a nice, clean environment with the most important ingredient: plenty of room to sit.

NEWS | 04/25/2001

The rift between words and swords

"I don't know if I write the poetry or the poetry writes itself.""Urban Scribe," a new documentary film by Princeton Film Foundation Vice President Jane Han '02, tells the story of a new generation of poets, whose work is based not just on the words themselves, but on the performance.

NEWS | 04/25/2001

Poetry troupe breathes hypnotic melodies

"Breathe. Breathe," the woman speaks into the mic as the woman standing beside her begins singing a Korean folk song.

NEWS | 04/25/2001

'Not just a sex piece,' dance confronts the norm

You remember the signs plastered all over lampposts two weeks ago. In blazing blue they proclaimed "diSi-Sex," and left you wondering.

NEWS | 04/25/2001

Kinky plot highlights Haidle's kink-less production

"Spaghetti Western," a senior thesis play by Noah Haidle '01, evokes with its title the cowboy and Indian "B movies" that were filmed in Italy and Spain after the Second World War.Yet the title of Haidle's play does more than locate his cast of characters in time and space.

NEWS | 04/25/2001

Gay cowboy and televangelist showdown in student's thesis

Growing up on a ranch in the middle of rural Texas, it's not surprising that I was raised on Westerns.

NEWS | 04/18/2001

Odcikin portrays witches as three stages of womanhood in 'Macbeth'

It's been a six-year-long journey for Evren Odcikin '02 and "Macbeth," beginning with his first reading of the Bard's play his freshman year of high school in Turkey and now culminating with his directorial debut of the same play at Princeton University.From the moment he first picked up the play, Odcikin said he was filled with questions which he hoped to explore as a director.

NEWS | 04/18/2001

Not just belly dancing

"Raks Odalisque is Princeton's only Middle Eastern dance troupe. We started as a class at Dillon Gym, meeting once a week for an hour.

NEWS | 04/18/2001

Old English epic poem inspires student to secretly craft its musical

"Beowulf," the Old English epic poem has been in the news a surprising amount in recent years, in large part because of the success of Seamus Heaney's award-winning modern translation, published in 2000.

NEWS | 04/18/2001

'Bridget Jones' Diary' fails to reveal juicy new secrets

CAUTION: Reviewer disappointed by new popular film adaption of Helen Fielding's novel, "Bridget Jones' Diary," starring two seriously hunky British men and one patently adorable American actress.Despite the obvious advantages of a film starring two such smoldering flames as Hugh Grant and Colin Firth ? one of whom has made his career out of stuttering, and the other has a great debt to pay Jane Austen ? the movie "Bridget Jones' Diary" fails to capitalize upon its most powerful advantage ? the witty and irreverent novel it is based on.

NEWS | 04/18/2001

Twenty years after pioneering the 'coming-out' novel, professor Edmund White is not your ordinary flaneur

It is a calm Tuesday afternoon in East Pyne. An eager group of Francophiles has gathered in the Romance Languages and Literatures lounge to hear a reading by creative writing professor Edmund White.White sits, relaxed, in a deep-seated wooden chair, one leg languidly crossed over the other.

NEWS | 04/18/2001

Inspired by erosion of privacy, Kopit crafts net thriller

Arthur Kopit believes in privacy. To interview a man whose latest play "BecauseHeCan" deals with the erosion of privacy in the Information Age and who stands proudly by his belief that "privacy is at the heart of our freedom" would intimidate the most intrepid of interviewers.Fortunately for this interviewer, Kopit's strong political commitment to privacy does not extend to journalistic interviews.

NEWS | 04/11/2001

A New Group Gets Its Stripes

Differing significantly from the musical slapstick of "Triangle" and the improvised antics of "Quipfire!," "Stripes" ? the new sketch comedy troupe at Princeton ? is now working to find its own niche on campus.Dissatisfied with the theater options at Princeton, Jesse Yang '04 decided this past fall to simply create his own group.

NEWS | 04/11/2001

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