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Gender-swapped play takes on the ‘men’s rights’ movement

It’s a summer day in Sonoma Valley’s Bohemian Grove, where the country’s most powerful men gather to cavort, perform mysterious rituals and cement their social and political power. This year, however, they have a different agenda: whether to bar women from comedy and from voting. This is the premise of Men’s Rites: An Alt-Comedy, which…

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Stephen Sansom (foreground) with Alan Sheppard, Scott Arcenas, Michael Vang and David Driscoll rehearsing the contemporary presentation of Cyclops.
Campus Stories

SCIT presents Euripides’ Cyclops

Otis and Us of Ithaca, New York, are like any old band touring the Williamsburg circuit. They’re tearing up stages, bagging chicks, and rolling their own fair-trade tobacco cigarettes all while keeping to a strict locavore, vegan, paleo-diet. Worn and exhausted from their most recent conquests at Coachella, the merry band of brooding hipsters gets…

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