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CAROLYN CLAY

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Dead men walking

ART ventures into No Man’s Land ; SpeakEasy stages a Parade
Hamlet’s “undiscovered country” is the subject of Nobel laureate Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 22, 2007

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Sweeping drama

The Clean House at Trinity, plus Secret Order at Merrimack
There are doctors in the house at both Trinity Repertory Company and Merrimack Repertory Theatre.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 16, 2007

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Not about heroes

Lyric Stage’s Arms and the Man ; Gold Dust Orphans’ The Milkman Always Comes Twice
Guns and cocoa butter are the subjects of George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 Arms and the Man , the first of the great Irish contrarian’s “Plays Pleasant.”
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 10, 2007

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Dry Daisey

The monologist opens Monopoly!
Fortunately for Mike Daisey, Bill Gates is on the other coast and Thomas Edison and Sam Walton are dead.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 03, 2007

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To Hell in a handbasket

The Wild Party; Confessions of a Mormon Boy; Buried Child
The epic poem The Wild Party is most famous for inspiring two musicals that appeared in the same millennial year.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 01, 2007

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Hit or myth

Persephone debuts at the Huntington; Valhalla comes to Zeitgeist
From Shakespeare to Shaw, statues have come to life on stage.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 17, 2007

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September songs

Invincible Summer ; The Fantasticks ; I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda
“Try to remember the kind of September/When life was slow and oh, so mellow,” sings El Gallo at the top of The Fantasticks .
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 10, 2007

Muscles as art: Hulk meets haute

The aesthetics of oily bodies
This article originally appeared in the February 22, 1977 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 09, 2007

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Out on a limb

Titus Andronicus  from ASP; Syncopation at MRT
Actors’ Shakespeare Project handles Shakespeare’s biggest bloodbath without turning on a single spigot.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 02, 2007

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Faith-based antics

Miss Witherspoon at the Lyric; Theresa at Home at BPT
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if you took Comparative Religion and crack cocaine simultaneously, the answer may be Christopher Durang’s Miss Witherspoon .
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  March 27, 2007

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Sick comedy

Well at the Huntington; Fat Pig at SpeakEasy
Lisa Kron calls her “multi-character theatrical exploration of issues of health and illness both in an individual and in a community” Well .
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  March 20, 2007

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Perfect Balance

Trinity polishes Albee’s Pulitzer winner
Harold Pinter once said that his plays were about “the weasel under the cocktail cabinet.”
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  March 06, 2007

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Songbird and Snowbirds

Souvenir at Lyric Stage; Almost, Maine at SpeakEasy
For Shakespeare’s Orsino, music is the food of love. For soprano Florence Foster Jenkins, it was the food of delusion — and she had a voracious appetite.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 20, 2007

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Fagin’s follies

Neil Bartlett's Oliver Twist
Forget the pint-sized urchin asking for “more.”
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 13, 2007

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Black and white?

Jones brings complex colors to Doubt
The slickly written, shifting   Doubt   is no simple, purgative vigilante drama.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 12, 2007

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Life’s enchanted cup

Our Town at Trinity; BTW’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The buzz about Trinity Repertory Company’s Our Town has centered on its double-barreled depiction of community.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 07, 2007

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Tyrants’ tales

American Repertory Theatre’s Britannicus, Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s The Winter’s Tale
According to legend, Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 30, 2007

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History tours

Silence at New Rep; trying at MRT; Olympia Dukakis in Rose
Silence could be golden, but British playwright Moira Buffini can’t resist throwing in cheaper metals.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 24, 2007

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Home fires

The Cherry Orchard; Brontë; Sailing Down the Amazon and Haiku
There’s not a samovar in sight, and American playwright Richard Nelson has sharpened and pared down the script.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 17, 2007

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Threesomes

See What I Wanna See; Design for Living
Truth is in the eye of the beholder in See What I Wanna See , Michael John LaChiusa’s musically lush riff on stories by Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 09, 2007
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