The Shakespeare in the Arb production of “Macbeth” now has a cast and music. The play, which will show the weekend of April 15-17, will be scored by sophomore Quentin Herman. The directors, seniors Faith Liu and Daniel Negri, have gathered a cast of students, alumni, and professors for a conventional staging accented by Herman’s...
Author: Micah Meadowcroft (Micah Meadowcroft)
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Foreign policy: America, Israel, and the future of the Middle East
Anders Kiledal | Collegian Sophomore Michael Lucchese examines exploded Qassam rockets from Gaza at a police station in the “bomb shelter capital of the world,” Sderot, Israel. As Russia becomes the major player in Syria and ISIS gives countries with diverging interests a common enemy, America has the opportunity to take back the lost initiative...
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Political crises, real and imaginary
“They encircle me with words of hate.” Israel lives the lament of the psalmist, 8 million people surrounded by enemies. Across the northwest border, the rockets of Hezbollah face Jerusalem. In the northeast, al-Qaida clings to its piece of shattered Syria. Jordan, sometime friend but former enemy, weak to external pressure, lies in the east....
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France has a chance to redeem modern war
In response to the horrifying murder of 129 civilians in Paris last Friday, France must re-civilize western war making. The Islamic State claimed responsibility Saturday for the coordinated strikes by eight operatives, describing the attack as retaliation for French military action in Syria. The same day, French President Francois Hollande called Friday’s massacre “an act...
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Dancing at Lughnasa
On the stage appears a sparsely-furnished house, and in and around the house there are frozen figures. Beside the house in a spot of light, a smiling man speaks in a richly inviting Irish lilt. A memory begins. The Tower Players’ production of the late Irish dramatist Brian Friel’s “Dancing at Lughnasa” opened yesterday evening,...