Idea: Death
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Can a cup of coffee and a dead canary really sustain an opera? Apparently, they can sustain three. Pinchgut Opera’s Coffee and a Dead Canary is a caffeine hit of Baroque music, glamour and glorious theatrical nonsense. Director Eugene Lynch pours three miniature cantatas and one flute concerto into a full-bodied blend that is extremely…
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Being chosen can feel so much like being loved that we stop asking what it costs us. Heathers understands popularity and romantic love as parallel forms of seduction. The Heathers make Veronica feel socially chosen; J.D. makes her feel personally understood. Both gradually shift the boundaries of what she is willing to excuse until complicity…
