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[chanaleh]

For those of you who've been asking, Spike Heels ticket reservations are now up!
http://www.occasionalplayers.org/

(Official synopsis: "Pygmalion goes awry in contemporary comedy of manners which explores sexual harassment, misplaced amour and the possibility of a four sided love triangle." More spoilerific plot summary here, for those -- hi, Mom! -- who may or may not make it, but are curious what the fuss is all about... though that writeup really doesn't do it justice.)

In not altogether unrelated news, a UK study shows that an outburst of expletives can help reduce pain. :-)

Also also: besides Festival@First 6 tonight (8pm at Unity Church, College Ave), we're going (probably with Dr. & Mrs. arijw) to see Half-Blood Prince tomorrow evening (Sunday 7/26, 6:15pm at the Loews Boston Common). Anyone?

Comments

[moria923.livejournal.com]

thorbol will definitely be interested in that UK study!

I'll be using the spoilerific plot summary, even though I'm planning to come to the show, to reduce the need for during-the-play description. When we went to see "Wicked" in NYC, someone gave me a plot summary, but didn't want to spoil the ending. As a result, we really didn't get the ending clarified until we asked someone in our hotel, the day after the show.

[moria923.livejournal.com]

Just read the article about the swearing study. It sounded as though he had all the students do the swearing first and the non-swearing later. I wonder if this was a well-designed study. Shouldn't they have had one swearing group and one non-swearing group, or perhaps half of the volunteers do the swearing first and the non-swearing second, while the other half did it the other way around? It strikes me that the results could possibly be explained by the volunteers' already being sick of discomfort by the time they got to the second round. Thoughts?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I think that may have been badly described in the press release; the paper itself says that the order was randomized. (It does seem to involve everyone doing both swearing and non-swearing).

[navrins]

That's fascinating. I may ask my psych professor if he knows anything more about it.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even thought of the spoiler-summary being a useful accessibility tool! Excellent. :-)

[fredrickegerman.livejournal.com]

Do tell the good Dr. to come to Spike Heels... I think he knows the whole cast.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

In point of fact, he was THE FIRST to reserve tickets. :-) Behold the power of Facebook!