The Core Blog

O Corelings, how we pine for you in the air-conditioned, quiet, peanut butter pretzel-stocked Core office. You know, you’re welcome to visit us, alumni and incoming freshmen included. (CAS 119!) In the meantime, here are this week’s links.

• This weekend, catch Brown Box Theatre Project’s production of Hamlet in nearby Allston at a formerly abandoned amphitheater in Christian Herter Park. Free performances run Friday through Sunday.
• Even closer to home, BU Stage Troupe presents the final performance of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, a comedy based on Chekhov’s plays and themes, in the Student Theater at Agganis Arena at the end of this month. Like Hamlet, this show is also free, and it is included as an optional part of orientation. (Here is a link to the Facebook event!)
• From one hermit to another: “Hermit” lit, rated by Christopher Knight, a man who lived alone in the woods in Maine for 27 years. Lao-Tzu, Emerson, Frost, Dickinson, Thoreau, and Dostoyevsky are all subject to Knight’s criticism.
• Erica Jong, accompanied by Paul Muldoon of The New Yorker, waxes poetic on British Romantic John Keats in her poem “Dear Keats.” (Begins 10:53)

• Just for fun: Photographer Freddy Fabris reimagines famous Renaissance works in a new setting: the garage. Where else can you see mechanics recreating Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam or Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp?

Anatomy lesson. Photograph by Freddy Fabris. (via Sad and Useless)

That’s all for this week. Be safe, make good decisions, read lots of books, etc.