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CAROLYN CLAY

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Pioneer woman

The intrigue of Christine Jorgensen
The layers of unreality in Christine Jorgensen Reveals are like phyllo.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 14, 2006

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Down under

Rinde Eckert retools the Orpheus myth
The myth of Orpheus is a Rorschach blot at which artists from Monteverdi and Gluck to Jean Cocteau and Marcel Camus have squinted over the centuries, seeing different and sometimes shifting shapes.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 04, 2006

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Broadsides

Saturday night feminists live
The name of the troupe Broad Comedy is double-edged.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  March 31, 2006

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Loners

Talley’s Folly , Auntie & Me , The Good Body
What do you give an audience after The Goat , Edward Albee’s 2002 Tony winner about a prize-winning architect sexually bewitched by an animal?
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  March 28, 2006

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Crusaders

Monty Python’s Spamalot , Súgán’s Talking to Terrorists
Broadway is strewn with the banana peel of Arthurian legend.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  March 21, 2006

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Get Smart

The Huntington’s The Hopper Collection  
Edward Hopper meets Edward Albee in The Hopper Collection , a flawed but intriguing new play by Mat Smart.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  March 14, 2006

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Animal farm

The Goat at Lyric Stage of Boston, Indoor/Outdoor at Trinity Rep
The word tragedy means “goat song” in ancient Greek, and indeed, the protagonist of Edward Albee’s The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? is making beautiful music with a mistress of the caprine persuasion.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  March 02, 2006

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Love and death

Romeo and Juliet at the ART , Othello at Boston Theatre Works
Forget star-cross’d. At the American Repertory Theatre, Romeo and Juliet are just plain cross.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 22, 2006

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Broken dreams

Intimate Apparel , Death of a Saleslady
Proxy rhetorician of love Cyrano de Bergerac is drawn into a less romantic age in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel , which beat out August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean for the American Theatre Critics Association’s Steinberg New Play Award, and is now in its area premiere at Merrimack Repertory Theatre.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 19, 2006

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Fleet prince

Trinity Rep gives us Hamlet with rampaging energy and an incipient drinking problem
“Sweet maid” Gertrude calls Ophelia. And all these years you thought she was referring to Hamlet’s unfortunate lady love as a virgin.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 09, 2006

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Wendy Wasserstein,1950–2006

In Memoriam
Wendy Wasserstein, who died Monday of lymphoma at the age of 55, was a successful, committed commercial playwright — Lillian Hellman with a sense of humor.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 02, 2006

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Elemental journeys

Five by Tenn , Tom Crean — Antarctic Explorer
Exploration is the fodder of Five by Tenn and Tom Crean — Antarctic Explorer .
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 02, 2006

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Grief encounters

Frozen , Dark As a Thousand Midnights , A Prayer for Owen Meany
Bryony Lavery turns a cold eye on a heated subject in Frozen (at New Repertory Theatre through February 12).
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 25, 2006

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Close companions

No Exit , Les Liaisons Dangereuses , and Little Women
The characters of Jean-Paul Sartre’s iconic 1944 one-act No Exit are in Hell.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 23, 2006

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Snickers over knickers

The Lyric Stage airs Steve Martin’s Underpants
With fame often comes overexposure. But in Steve Martin’s The Underpants , which he adapted from German writer Carl Sternheim’s 1910 farce Die Hosen , the fame is over exposure.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 12, 2006

HEY, HO: Kenny Raskin brings a vaudeville touch to Feste.

Present mirth

Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s delightful Twelfth Night
A turn-of-the-20th-century dourness collides with a likable lightness of being in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Twelfth Night .
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 02, 2006
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