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The Penelopiad: A Great Experience

February 26, 2013 at 12:49 pm

The Penelopiad turned out to be as interesting and multi-layered as we had expected, attracting about 35 Core students and many more theater fans! Following the events of the Odyssey from the female perspective, the play interwove the voice of Penelope and the voices of her twelve maids who are killed in the end at […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Academics, Activities, Art, Community, Events, Great Questions | Tagged acting, event, female, feminine, maid, man, negligence, odyssey, Penelope, Penelopiad, play, relationship, sexuality, stage, theater, voice, women | Comments (0)

BU Today: The Penelopiad

February 22, 2013 at 10:26 am

This article by Susan Seligson of BU Today provides the first reactions to CFA’s rendi tion of Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad. Here is a sample of description: In this contemporary reimagining of The Odyssey, which the author adapted from her 2005 novella, the dead Penelope narrates her tale from a 21st-century Hades, in a state she describes as […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Activities, Announcements, Art, Community, Events, Friday Fun, Great Ideas | Tagged CFA, event, fun, interpretation, Margaret Atwood, odyssey, play, production, theater, women | Comments (0)

Charles McNulty on Depictions of Violence in Theater

February 19, 2013 at 12:49 pm

In this compelling article, Los Angeles Times Theater Critic McNulty discusses the controversial topic of violence in theater. Here is a sample: What is the line between acceptable and unacceptable violence in art? If gruesomeness is the criterion, much of Jacobean drama would have to be banned, including Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” with its graphic scene […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Activities, Art, Community, Events, Great Ideas, Great Questions | Tagged anger, arts, controversy, odyssey, peace, Penelopiad, performance, production, right, theater, violence, wrong | Comments (0)

MassMoca Trip in March

February 12, 2013 at 5:23 pm

The Core encourages students to join the BU Art History Association on a trip to MassMoca on Saturday March 2nd. MassMoca is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual and performing arts in the country (for their official site, visit http://bit.ly/XwXaBv). The cost of the trip is $10 and includes transportation, guided tour, and box […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Activities, Announcements, Art, Community, Events | Tagged arts, contemporary, exciting, experience, history, museum, new, travel, trip | Comments (0)

Brahms, Sibelius and Beethoven

January 23, 2013 at 2:54 pm

The Core is offering 15 free tickets for the Boston Symphony Orchestra performance on Thursday February 7th, at 8:00 PM, in the Boston Symphony Hall. From http://bit.ly/VWRVKL: The eminent German conductor Christoph von Dohnányi leads three masterpieces from the heart of the orchestral repertoire. The program begins with Brahms’s earliest orchestral masterpiece, his Variations on […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Activities, Announcements, Events | Tagged beethoven, brahms, city, event, fun, music, orchestra, sibelius, violin | Comments (0)

Trip to the Peabody-Essex Museum

March 21, 2012 at 4:46 pm

Professor Zhou in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature has offered to include Core students in a trip to the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem. The trip will take place this Saturday, March 24. The Peabody-Essex Museum has a well known collection of Chinese and Asian art, highlighted by a Chinese house that was […]

By CAS Core Curriculum | Tagged China, museums, trip | Comments (0)

Core to see Pride & Prejudice on stage

March 8, 2012 at 1:42 pm

On March 20th, the second-year Core Humanities students will hear a lecture on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by the novelist Allegra Goodman. Dr. Goodman’s most recent book The Cookbook Collector has been described as a “Sense and Sensibility for the digital age.” We are fortunate that a theatrical version of Pride and Prejudice is […]

By CAS Core Curriculum | Also posted in Activities, alumni, Announcements, Community, Core Authors | Tagged Austen, CC202, prejudice, pride, theater, trip | Comments (0)

Core revels at the Frog Pond

February 15, 2011 at 12:55 pm

On Friday, February 11th, a crew of Core congregants convened on Boston Common with a few of the faculty, for an evening of frivolity and physical fitness: skating on that iciest of seasonal attractions, the Frog Pond rink. Cocoa was had, our sources report. Happiness levels were uniformly elevated in all participants. Photo courtesy Prof. […]

By CAS Core Curriculum | Also posted in Activities | Tagged Core in the City, fun, photo | Comments (0)

Another response to the A.R.T. Ajax

February 14, 2011 at 4:31 pm

Prof. David Roochnik, Core seminar leader, lecturer, and professor in the Department of Philosophy, wrote in to the Core blog to share this thoughts about the production of Ajax Core students and faculty attended this weekend. Interesting production. Brilliant idea to use the video screens for the chorus. But the disconnected speeches they uttered were, […]

By CAS Core Curriculum | Also posted in Core Authors, Events | Tagged Ajax, CC101, Core in the City, faculty, Sophocles, theater | Comments (0)

MoS Planetarium Grand Reopening

February 10, 2011 at 5:14 pm

Exciting news! Boston’s Museum of Science is holding its grand re-opening of their newly-renovated planetarium this Sunday, February 13. This is now the most technologically advanced digital theatre in all of New England! The show chosen for the launch presentation is titled Undiscovered Worlds: The Search Beyond our Sun. The Museum is on the Green […]

By CAS Core Curriculum | Also posted in Events | Tagged CC105, museums | Comments (0)

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