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2 December Thursday

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Concert

Lunchtime Organ Recital. Mark Slawson. Adolphus Busch Hall, 12:15 p.m. Free.

Exhibitions

Fogg Art Museum. Through Nov. 14: "American Painting at Mid-Century: Highlights from a Private Collection." Considers the vital moment in history of avant-garde painting in New York by artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning and Frank Stella.

Through Nov. 11: "Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest." Featuring works by artists such as William Blake, Aubrey Beardsley and John Constable.

Through Oct. 31: "School of Paris." Works by the group of artists whose work epitomizes European and modernism and the avant-garde, especially as they were conceived by American audiences between the two World Wars.

Sackler Museum. Through Jan. 23: "Buddhist Art: The Later Tradition." A survey of Buddhist art from the 8th through the 18th centuries, emphasizing works from China, Korea and Japan but also including ones from Nepal and Tibet.

Through Oct. 31: "From India's Hills and Plains: Rajput Paintings from the Punjab and Rajasthan." Works commissioned for Rajput princes and their courts from the 17th through the 19th centuries. The show features lively vignettes of Hindu gods and goddessers and deptictions of courtly activities vividly painted in brilliant palettes.

Through Nov. 21: "Rothko's Harvard Murals." Five monumental abstract murals painted for the University.

Schlesinger Library. Through Dec. 3: "Votes for Women: An Exhibition of Suffrage Posters." Original British and American suffrage movement posters.

Films

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Until the Ship Sails" at 7 p.m. The precursor of the Greek "New Wave," this film demonstrates the unique features of both the modern Greek cinema and the extremely individualist director/actor Aliexis Damianos, who won for this film the best director prize at the Hyeres Film Festival. Reception at 9 p.m.

Talk

"Japan's Changing Role in the World Economy." A brown-bag lunch with Edward Lincoln, senior fellow, Brookings Institution. Coolidge 3, noon.

Theatre

Fuente Ovejuna. A 1600's Spanish drama by Lope de Vega and translated and adapted by Adrian Mitchell. The true story of a small town in fifteenth-century Spain whose peasant citizens, in order to defend their honor and rights as citizens, are led by a townswoman to rise up against their tyrannous commander. Loeb Drama Center, 8 p.m. $5 for students.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? By Edward Albee. Presented by the Cambridge Theatre Company, this dazzling comedy presents one of the most memorable of married couples in a searing night of dangerous fun and games with their two guests, Nick and Honey, who innocently become their foil. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m. 29 October Friday

Concert

Blodgett Chamber Music Series. The Mendelssohn String Quartet, Blodgett Artists in Residence, perform Mozart's String Quartet in D Major, K. 499, the world premiere of Augusta Read Thomas' String Quartet, and Brahms's Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. Free.

Cabot House Music Society. Pianist Hiroko Kunitake performs works by Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and Chopin. Cabot House, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Film

Silence of the Lambs. Presented by the Adams House Film Society. Science Center B, 8 and 10 p.m. $3.

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students.

"Evdokia" at 7 p.m. A drama of passion, in which main characters are a sergeant and a prostitute who get married after a brief and passionate idyll. With everything moving between violent sensuality, cruelty, coarseness and total austerity, this story assumes the dimension of an ancient tragedy reconfirming the profound cinematic sensitivity of its director, Damianos, especially in depicting the authentic environment in which the agony of sin takes place.

"Happy Day" at 9 p.m. Based on the novel, The Plage, by Andreas Frangais, this film is a socio-political drama, whose protagonists are members of a group of exiles, their guards and the official visitors, focusing on the complex relationship between them. Situated on a barren island, with the strong wind and burning sun, this closed society symbolizes a concentration camp with its imaginary characters participating in a rhythmic ritual, while searching for human dignity and the essence of things.

Theatre

Fuente Ovejuna. A 1600's Spanish drama by Lope de Vega and translated and adapted by Adrian Mitchell. The true story of a small town in fifteenth-century Spain whose peasant citizens, in order to defend their honor and rights as citizens, are led by a townswoman to rise up against their tyrannical commander. Loeb Drama Center, 8 p.m. $5 for students.

Deathtrap. By lra Levin. Produced by Bill Selig and Ada Lin. Directed by Kaile Shilling. A thriller in two acts. Juicy murder in Act One, unexpected developments in Act Two. So begins Deathrap, written by a burned out mystery playwright. Or one of his students. With help from the worried wife, lawyer, and psychic next door, the tension builds in this suspenseful, intricate murder romp. Loeb Experimental Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Endworks. A performance piece featuring Chris O'Neil drawn from the works of Samuel Beckett. Agassiz Theatre, 8 p.m. $12 for students.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ByEdward Albee. Presented by the Cambridge TheatreCompany, this dazzling comedy presents one of themost memorable of married couples in a searingnight of dangerous fun and games with their twoguests, Nick and Honey, who innocently becometheir foil. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m.30 October Saturday

Concert

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Featuredwill be violinist Scoot Yoo and cellist AndresDiaz. The program includes Voss' Scherzo forOrchestra, Brahms's Concerto for Violin and Cello,and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. Sanders Theatre, 8p.m. $5, $7 and $9 for students.

Film

Silence of the Lambs. Presented by theAdams House Film Society. Science Center B, 8 and10 p.m. $3.

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Iphigenia" at 7 p.m. This isMichael Cacoyannis' most realistic adaptation ofthe Greek tragedies. Filmed in natural settingsclose to the sea shore, this adaptation ofEuripides' dramatic text reveals the director'smastery, as well as the great performances,especially that of Irene Papas, the most prominentcontemporary Greek tragedienne.

"The Idlers of the Fertile Valley" at 9:30 p.m.A wealthy member of the upper class and his threesons withdraw to their country villa, where theyendulge themselves in the macabre pleasure ofidleness and perversion. Echoeing Bunuel andFerrari, the film reaches a bitter socialsymbolism through metaphoric shot compositions andsurrealist atmosphere, winning the Gold Leopard atthe Locarno and the Best Director prize at theChicago Film Festivals.

Theatre

Fuente Ovejuna. A 1600's Spanish dramaby Lope de Vega and translated and adapted byAdrian Mitchell. The true story of a small town infifteenth-century Spain whose peasant citizens, inorder to defend their honor and rights ascitizens, are led by a townswoman to rise upagainst their tyrannous commander. Loeb DramaCenter, 8 p.m. $5 for students.

Deathtrap. By Ira Levin. Produced byBill Selig and Ada Lin. Directed by KaileShilling. A thriller in two acts. Juicy murder inAct One, unexpected developments in Act Two. Sobegins Deathrap, written by a burned out mysteryplaywright. Or one of his students. With help fromthe worried wife, lawyer, and psychic next door,the tension builds in this suspenseful, intricatemurder romp. Loeb Experimental Theatre, 7:30 p.m.Free.

Endworks. A performance piece featuringChris O'Neil drawn from the works of SamuelBeckett. Agassiz Theatre, 8 p.m. $12 for students.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ByEdward Albee. Presented by the Cambridge TheatreCompany, this dazzling comedy presents one of themost memorable of married couples in a searingnight of dangerous fun and games with their twoguests, Nick and Honey, who innocently becometheir foil. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 5 and 9 p.m.31 October Sunday

Concert

Organ Recitals at Harvard. A HalloweenRecital. Busch Hall, midnight. Free.

Back Bay Chorale. Sanders Theatre, 8p.m. $12.50-$20.50.

Film

Harvard-Epworth Film Series. Les Damesdu Bois de Boulogne. Harvard Epworth UnitedMethodist Church, 1555 Mass Ave., 8 p.m. $3.

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students.

"1922" at 3 and 9:30 p.m. An imaginativeadaptation of the novel Number 31328 by EliasVenezis, depicting the tortuous and devastatingmarch of a group of captives through the desert ofAsia Minor, immediately after its disaster.Transcending the historical chronicling fo theevent, the film is a fascinating evocation ofextermination and hardship of hundreds ofthousands of Greeks who, following the destructionof Smirna, left the lonian shores they hadinhabited for centuries. The film won two topprizes at the Cape Town Film Festival.

"A Foolish Love" at 7 p.m. Secluded in hisdarkened room, a young man communicates with theworld around him exclusively by way of atelescope, gradually establishing an intimaterelationship with an unknown woman whose visit tothe secluded apartment upsets the previouslyestablished delicate balance between them. Thefilm explores the psychological aspect ofloneliness characteristic of the great city ofAthens.

Theatre

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ByEdward Albee. Presented by the Cambridge TheatreCompany, this dazzling comedy presents one of themost memorable of married couples in a searingnight of dangerous fun and games with their twoguests, Nick and Honey, who innocently becometheir foil. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 2 and 7 p.m.1 November Monday

Theatre

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ByEdward Albee. Presented by the Cambridge TheatreCompany, this dazzling comedy presents one of themost memorable of married couples in a searingnight of dangerous fun and games with their twoguests, Nick and Honey, who innocently becometheir foil. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m.2 November Tuesday

Talk

Nonviolent Resistance to White Supremacy: AComparison of the American Civil Rights Movementand the South African Defiance Campaign.George Fredrickson, Edgar E. Robinson Professor ofU.S. History, Stanford University, and fellow, DuBois Institute. Sever 103, 4:15 p.m.

Asian-American Women Writers Today. EvaShan Chou. Bunting Institute, 34 Concord Ave.,7:30 p.m.

Theatre

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ByEdward Albee. Presented by the Cambridge TheatreCompany, this dazzling comedy presents one of themost memorable of married couples in a searingnight of dangerous fun and games with their twoguests, Nick and Honey, who innocently becometheir foil. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m.3 November Wednesday

Book signing

Susan Ware. Author of "Still Missing:Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminis."Ware is Professor of History, New York Universityand Schlesinger Library Visiting Scholar.Schlesinger Library, 5-7 p.m. Free.

Theatre

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ByEdward Albee. Presented by the Cambridge TheatreCompany, this dazzling comedy presents one of themost memorable of married couples in a searingnight of dangerous fun and games with their twoguests, Nick and Honey, who innocently becometheir foil. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m

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