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MEGAN GRUMBLING

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Antics ever + anon

Casco Bay Cabaret rolls around for the eighth time
Casco Bay Cabaret rollYou may have tossed out your noisemakers and extra lampshades on New Year’s Morning, but the antics of the season certainly aren’t over yet.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  January 10, 2007

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Papa performances

Bringing Hemingway back to life
Concise and elegant, the prose of Ernest Hemingway in some ways resembles particularly beautiful stage directions.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  January 03, 2007

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Back in the acts

A year in Maine theater
When it comes to dramatics, there’s plenty to toast at this year’s end.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  December 20, 2006

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Young Cratchits take center stage

Cheers
Getting a little weary of all the flashy, material excess of the Yuletide season?
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  December 13, 2006

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Bunny babies

 Plenty of rabbits, but little gimmickry
It seems that mild young Mary Toft, in a twist on the old idiom, is birthing like a bunny.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  December 13, 2006

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Christmas spirits

Drinking and living it up Irish-style
Christmas in Lisnacoo involves an avenging Santa, wanton women, and, above all, an impressive amount of spirits — both the kind in bottles and the kind within the lively Irish.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  December 06, 2006

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Total recall

Spacing out the act of memory
If we could give memory feet, how might it approach?
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  November 29, 2006

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Portrait of an artist

Anne Frank's diary is just the beginning
Anne Frank’s celebrated diary is not just a window into daily life during a horrific time. In these loving, compulsive entries, we can also see the raw ore of an artist: the undeniable urge toward expression.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  November 21, 2006

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Stripped bare

Cell + home + spirits in Two Rooms
Lainie has stripped one room in her house of art, furniture, carpets, and even paint.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  November 15, 2006

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Blood-sucking women

This Dracula's no member of the gentle sex
One of the most erotically charged stories of the horror canon is the tale of the undead ruler of the House of Vlad, and the tumult that ensues when he sets his sights on a young British naif.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  November 08, 2006

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Clever richness

Theater Project satire hits beautifully
The language in which the national political apparatus talks about war has undergone some shifts lately (no more, it seems, will we be “staying the course”), but you can safely bet on the sweeping endurance of words like “honor,” “ideals,” and, of course, “heroes.”
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  November 08, 2006

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Learn about life behind bars

Hearing voices
Our contentious American prison system — overcrowded, disproportionately populated by minorities, and, increasingly, privately operated — is not just an abstract liberal cause.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  November 01, 2006

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Lyrical gangstas

Tenants Harbor group pushes poetry
In 1997, David Riley and four other Tenants Harbor poets decided to become what he calls “ambassadors for poetry in a prose-laden world.”
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  November 01, 2006

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Scurrilous scurryings

Exposed: waterfront workers' rugged vulnerabilities
Pull out your hip flasks, everybody, because a mean fog’s rolled in and some creepy shit has been seen down by the docks: mysterious shipments; creatures torn to shreds; strange thuds, scurries, and squeaks.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  November 01, 2006

Lights out

Mad Horse gets Bug -gy
Agnes probably should have known that something wasn’t right about Peter when he started talking about “Them” and “the machines.”
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  November 01, 2006

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Lovely, dark, and deep

Good theater enters the Woods
Everyone’s tale winds up among the trees in Good Theater’s enchanting and absolutely virtuoso production of Into the Woods , Stephen Sondheim’s clever musical elaboration upon our favorite fairy tales, seamlessly directed by Brian Allen at the St. Lawrence.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  October 25, 2006

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Storm tracks

Katrina's aftermath lingers
All of Chris Hume’s films are created under the banner “Shoot and Run Productions,” and it’s more than just catchy. It’s also a guerilla film-making credo.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  October 18, 2006

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Outlaw Island

Home to friends in enemies’ skin
Remove a man from the superstitions, fears, and silly strictures of society, a lot of old Enlightenment philosophers used to say, and his natural inclination will be toward laws that are rational and tolerant.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  October 18, 2006

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Theater companies settle in

Homecomings
When it comes to theater, there’s just no place like a home: somewhere to stash the costumes, to rehearse on your own terms, and, most importantly, to foster a sense of artistic family and community.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  October 11, 2006

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Not horsing around

God + man collide in Equus
When aborigines first encountered colonialists’ horses, according to Alan Strang’s mother, they believed that horse and rider were one being.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  October 11, 2006
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