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Listings, Dec. 12-18

THEATER | Mansaku-no-kai-kyogen Company

The company presents a comedy from the traditional Japanese genre of Noh, highly stylized theater containing music, masks, and dance. Tickets $35. Copley Theatre, 505 Boylston St., Boston. (ADH)

MISC | Anniversary Reenactment of the Boston Tea Party

Watch the patriots foment the Revolutionary War all over again. 5:30 pm. Tickets $5; free for those in colonial attire. Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington St., Boston. (ADH)

MUSIC | Mozart: Requiem

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The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the Harvard Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society join forces to present Mozart’s Requiem. Musical accompaniment is provided by the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, and soloists include Carole Haber (soprano), Paula Murrihy (mezzo-soprano), William Hite (tenor), and Mark McSweeney (baritone). Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets $18-$28, students $9-$14. (MPL)

MUSIC | The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players

Self-described as an “indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band,” the Players toy with the might-have-been lives of people seen in vintage slide shows. Made up of Jason (Dad), Tina (Mom), and Rachel Trachtenburg (daughter), the Players play pop music with guitars and drums over the backdrop of slide shows acquired from estate sales, garage sales, thrift stores, and the like. Tickets $10 in advance; 18+. 8 p.m. The Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass. Ave. (MPL)

FILM | Hard Goodbyes: My Father

Part of Harvard Film Archive’s annual festival “New Films from Europe,” Hard Goodbyes tells the story of Elias, a young boy living in Athens, who makes a pact with his father to watch the telecast of man leaving this earth and landing on the moon. Their collective imagination and their shared stories about adventures and explorations help Elias deal with the unimaginable: when his father takes leave of this earth as well. Greek with English subtitles. Harvard Film Archive, 7 p.m. Tickets $8/$6 students. (MPL)

FILM | This Little Life

This Little Life won the Dennis Potter Screenwriting Award with a simple story based around the diary a new mother kept on the days that her premature baby was kept in the neonatal intensive care unit. Director Sarah Gavron uses the visual and textual aspects of the movie to examine the experiences of the mother and the relationship she imagines having with her child, as well as the challenges facing a young, delicate life. Harvard Film Archive, 9 p.m. Tickets $8/$6 students. (MPL)

FILM | The Blue-Veiled

Presented as part of Boston Festival of Films from Iran, The Blue-Veiled is a film about a relationship between a widowed plantation owner and a strong-willed woman who lives in poverty, supports her mother and two younger siblings, and works on his plantation as a field hand. The relationship, however, is faced with numerous obstacles, like age and social class. The film is directed by Rakhshan Bani Etemad, whose research into the lives of working-class women in Iran informed the film. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 4 p.m. Tickets $10/$8 students. (MPL)

LECTURE | Before Expressionism: Art in Germany circa 1903

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