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Closer Takes a Look at Modern-Day Relationships
BY JOHN MACDONALD
Under the guidance of director and senior theater and English major Patrick Mulryan, a small group of Oberlin students produced and performed British playwright Patrick Marber’s 1996 play Closer at Little Theater this week. Engineered both as a Winter Term and honors project, the performance of Marber’s drama focuses on the complications of love and jealousy in contemporary relationships.
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Student Art Exhibit Gives a Glimpse of Japan
BY KARI WETHINGTON
Completed over Winter Term (but not a Winter Term “project,” mind you), junior Tei Blow’s art exhibit, “potogahi”, analyzes his own experience in Japan. The pieces examine the complexities of modern Japan with its often abrasive union of traditional and Western-influenced culture. The show, which opens Friday in Fisher Hall, will present 12 color photographic images and is held in conjunction with cocoon:cocoonist::, junior Luke Fasano’s exhibit . 
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