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Theater has been a passion of mine since early high school. \u00a0I acted in high school, college and seminary, quitting only when the time demands of theater exceeded what chunks I could give. \u00a0Not only did I act in college, but I had nearly enough credits for a theater minor, most of those credits in the history of theater.<\/p>\n
Live performance, perhaps even more so in the age of high technology, has a sacred aspect, as it did in antiquity. \u00a0It bridges the solitary creative act in the playwright’s mind and yours with real people, not paint or notes or words on a page, but people who choose to imagine themselves into other people’s lives and feelings.<\/p>\n
Tonight it was Bruce Norris’s edgy, often nasty Clybourne Park, a play willing to grasp the charged cable of race, in this case a cable stripped of its insulation, fully alive to our past and present predicament. \u00a0This play is worth reading, but even more it is worth seeing. \u00a0It is on the page minimalist, clever and spare; but on the stage it snakes like a downed power line, sparking here and there, totally dangerous.<\/p>\n
( photo of the Guthrie performance)<\/p>\n
If you believe race has settled down in our culture, see this play. \u00a0It will remind you that the road is long and the journey often bleak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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