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Strange Places

Posted on November 5, 2014, 10:22 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theater Reviews and Commentary.

Some plays are born strange, some achieve strangeness, and some have strangeness thrust upon them (or upon their characters, at least). We consider one of each type herein.

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A Silenced Songbird

Posted on April 21, 2013, 1:02 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

Hmm. I sense a diplomatic silence. One does not simply drop out at the top of a glamorous game and become an anonymous functionary in the halls of justice, marriage or not.

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