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Gimme a Kiss

(04/18/02 4:00am)

Hoof On' Horn's spring mounting of Kiss Me, Kate is a more-than-adequate fit for Duke's fickle romance environment. Director David Foster says this play is about "absurdly passionate people" and their relationships. The work illustrates a somewhat inflammatory idea that sometimes volatility instead of stability can make for a lasting couple. The book for the musical, written by Bella and Samuel Spewack, was in fact based on an actual tempestuous pair performing in a 1935 Theatre Guild production of The Taming of the Shrew. The result is a humorous play-within-a-play about Shakespeare, an acting company and love.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2002/04/gimme-kiss

Irish Eyes Aren't Smilin'

(03/07/02 5:00am)

ne need only think back to the O.J. Simpson trial to be reminded how fascinating murder and suspected murderer can be. Savagery can be a curiosity and in some cases can even provoke admiration. John Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, now open at Playmakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill, explores just these themes. Despite its setting in Ireland at the turn of the century, the play remains a fresh exposZ of a town shaken up by the arrival of a wanderer who claims to have recently killed his father.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2002/03/irish-eyes-arent-smilin

You Need Therapy & Beyond

(10/05/01 4:00am)

ore neurotic than Seinfeld, more frank than Sex and the City, Beyond Therapy is a colorful look at that special quality that makes us human--imperfection. Written by Christopher Durang, who also authored The Actor's Nightmare and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All to You, Therapy retains its freshness even almost 20 years after its Broadway premiere.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2001/10/you-need-therapy-beyond

Scapegoating RU-486 diminishes the abortion debate

(10/10/00 4:00am)

A debate waged in The Chronicle's editorial pages over abortion rights in general would be a heady one indeed. Unfortunately, the letter written by the members of Duke Students for Life made no attempt to address this controversial issue. Instead, these 39 individuals attacked what they have errantly marked as the victimizer of pregnant individuals and unborn fetuses-abortion pill RU-486.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2000/10/scapegoating-ru-486-diminishes-abortion-debate

Blood drive attempts to exploit Duke-UNC rivalry

(01/24/00 5:00am)

Putting the long-standing Tobacco Road rivalry to good use, the Duke Red Cross Club and a coalition of student leaders from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have united to coordinate a blood drive competition between the two schools. Every pint donated by students between early January and the March 4 Duke-UNC basketball game is being tallied in the "Battle of the Blood"-the blood drive face-off between the long-time rivals.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2000/01/blood-drive-attempts-exploit-duke-unc-rivalry

Medical Center researcher helps treat iodine deficiency in China

(10/06/99 4:00am)

For millions of people living in the poorer corners of the world, endemic cretinism, an iodine deficiency disease, is a tragic part of everyday existence. In frequently flooded or mountainous regions-where iodine is leached from the soil-thousands of children are born with the illness each year. These babies are afflicted with thyroid and growth disorders, along with permanent neurological conditions such as retardation and deafness.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/1999/10/medical-center-researcher-helps-treat-iodine-deficiency-china