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Article: Too many loose ends in 'Blind Tasting'.(Time Out!)(On theater)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2003
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Byline: Jack Helbig
Every few years, Sharon Evans, co-founder of the Live Bait Theater in Chicago, uses her theater to produce one of her original works. There is no shame in this. Live Bait has consistently supported lots of other local playwrights. And Evans is no slouch in the play writing department, having penned at least one brilliant play, "Freud, Dora and the Wolfman," and several others nearly as good.
However, the danger always exists that when you produce your own work you won't get the kind of criticism that helps turn a mediocre work into a good one.
That may have been what happened with "Blind Tasting," an undisciplined, ...