Posts Tagged ‘Civil War’
A Comedy About the Civil War? NCRT’s ‘Ben Butler’ Has Laughs as Collateral
Richard Strand’s play, “Ben Butler,” is the embodiment of what Shakespeare meant when he wrote, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers…”
Read MoreParks’ ‘Father’ a Conversation-Starter at Intrepid
Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) is a complex, three-hour, work to unravel, and director Christy Yael-Cox and her Intrepid company do an admirable job with the unraveling…
Read MoreFaded Glory Celebrates a Blackguard’s American History
Daniel Edgar Sickles’ life should have been a movie – or perhaps a television mini-series…The Sickles story is the equivalent of a blackguard’s American history, and its sweep is all but guaranteed to enthrall…It’s too bad, then, that Tim Burns’ play about Sickles, Faded Glory, now in its world premiere production at North Coast Rep, trades sweep for being shut up with a grumpy old man at the end of his life…
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