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image: Campus NewsFair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards and The Learned Ladies, through May 28. Based on an 18th-century Japanese puppet play, Peter Oswald's Fair Ladies features four young lovers who challenge the state's rigid order.

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Moličre's Learned Ladies tells of a bourgeois household where women rule the roost and passion for learning eclipses all else. The two plays are performed in rotating repertory. Court Theatre; call 773/753-4472.

Emerson String Quartet, April 28 at 8 p.m. In this exclusive Chicago appearance, the ensemble plays Haydn's Quartet op. 33, no.2; Shostakovich's Quartet no. 14 in F-sharp Major; and Mendelssohn's Quartet in F Minor, op. 80. Mandel Hall; call 773/702-8068.

Franz West, May 11-June 25. Known for his plaster-slathered, paint-spattered forms, this Viennese sculptor will place several of his pedestal works and a series of his graphic works in a larger setting devoted to staging musical performances, of which there will be several during the course of the exhibit. Renaissance Society; call 773/702-8670.

University Symphony Orchestra and University Chorus, May 26 at 8 p.m. and May 28 at 3 p.m. Barbara Schubert and Randi Von Ellefson conduct the orchestra and chorus in Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra; Brahms's Alto Rhapsody; and Dvorák's Te Deum. Mandel Hall; call 773/702-1300.

"Was Moses an Egyptian? Freud's Account in Moses and Monotheism," June 2 at 12:15 p.m. Adam Rose, AM'93, Basic Program staff instructor, lectures. Chicago Cultural Center; call 773/702-1722.


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