Play by William Shakespeare
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Boston Common
July 27 – August 12, 2012
A brash, and sonically and emotionally amplified, rendition of the political tragedy about a Roman general, and the mother who drives his ambitions.
The Dark Knight Rises
Film (2012)
The third in the new Batman series, grim, bleak and full of excitement. Anne Hathaway as a wry and slinky Catwoman, and the new airborne and multi-jointed Batmobiles, add pizzazz.
Brave
Film (2012)
An animated story of a young Scottish lass and her mother in ancient tribal times. The lass is self-possessed but strong-willed. The mother is sedate and composed, but a traditionalist. They have an odyssey together and come to some mutual insights about personal choice and social responsibility.
Bonnie Sea, Nina S. Benjamin, Far and Away
Wooden Boats
Constructed, with adapted designs, by Nathan Rome, Andrew Kitchen and Tom Jackson
Small Reach Regatta
Frenchman Bay, Maine
Three artfully crafted, owner built, wooden boats.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Film (2012)
Kendall Square Cinema
A mythically tinged epic about the determination of a disenfranchised father and daughter to survive environmental calamity and social disorder – the brutally tough love required to achieve independence, fortitude and relationship within it – and the strength generated by a young, but adept, narrative self.