A feast made with apples: From a morning run: Photos courtesy of Lulu Chen ’17
Month: January 2017
Austen’s Sense & Sensibility by the Bedlam Theatre Company
“I tried reading Sense & Sensibility once,” I confessed. “But I stopped because they were talking about money and it was boring.” “WHAT?! The money part is a satire!” The beauty of living together is that, after revealing my woeful ignorance, a fellow member of the Edwards Collective convinced me to give the story another… Continue reading Austen’s Sense & Sensibility by the Bedlam Theatre Company
La bohème
In October, we went to the Metropolitan Opera to see La bohème. The opera is both light and tragic, both relatable and humorous. There’s a swordfight on a rooftop. And the music is always swelling and crashing in waves because, well, Puccini wrote it. Here’s Gunnar Rice (’17) and Maggie Kurkoski (RGS) afterwards, with their… Continue reading La bohème
Things to consider when experiencing Kentridge’s “Refuse the Hour”
Refuse the Hour was the most thought-provoking event I was able to attend in the fantastic spread of Fall 2015 Edwards Collective events. Below are a few thoughts I wrote down in my notebook about Kentridge’s avant-garde chamber piece. Timecodes are based on https://vimeo.com/113399512 Metronomes and clocks give structure to time (1:39) Are the structures produced are relative to/dependent… Continue reading Things to consider when experiencing Kentridge’s “Refuse the Hour”