OPP: A Glimpse of Capitalistic Racial Injustice
By Ashley Reid A bald man’s head branded with the Nike symbol, a reproduction of a Gap Red ad, altered with the words Ebony Life, and a photo-and-film combination of a man slam-dunking a basketball through a lynching noose. These are just some of the striking and shocking images at Hank Willis Thomas’ art show...
Bang: Clowning Around With Desire
Ashley Reid Staff Writer Though I thought I’d walked into the Hepburn Teaching Theater, I quickly found reality to be a slippery concept; I had actually stepped into the strange world of “Bang.” “Bang”, a show by alumnae Charlotte Ford ’02, was a commedia dell’arte show that ran from April 6th to April 8th and...
A Sneak Peak at “Strangeland”: A Return to The Old Keane Days?
Ashley Reid Staff Writer Chimes and a piano delicately ring. A drumbeat gradually appears. A bright and soft melody begins playing. Tom Chaplin’s voice sings, ”In a city like mine there’s no point in fighting/ I close my eyes and see, you and me driving, if I am a river you are the ocean. Got...
Cyrano at the Arden Theatre: A Performance with Panache
By Ashley Reid Staff Writer Exploding with panache only begins to describe “Cyrano”, the recent play about the French poet and master swordsman in 1640 Paris who falls in love with the already-spoken-for Roxane, which is performing at the Arden Theatre Co. in Old City, Philadelphia from March 8 through April 15. The play began with the character...
Fort Blossom Revisted: A Bizarre, Provocative, Stunning Look at the Body
By Ashley Reid Staff Writer This past weekend was the premiere of renowned choreographer John Jasperse’s dance piece “Fort Blossom Revisited” (2012). The performance was set in in the Hepburn Teaching Theater in Goodhart Hall as a part of Bryn Mawr’s 2011-2012 Performing Arts Series. Bryn Mawr received a $53,000 grant so it could...
Why The Descendants Should Ascend To Oscar Glory
By Ashley Reid Staff Writer In the next three weeks, on Sun. Feb. 26, the 84th annual Academy Awards will take place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, broadcasted live by ABC where it will be celebrating a year’s worth of eventful films, including Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist and Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, which...