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Article: The closest of strangers.("Caroline or Change")(Theater Review)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- January 26, 2004
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CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
Tony Kushner's latest play, Caroline, or Change, left me contemplating its curious title, which suggests an indecisive playwright. Why not just Caroline, or simply Change? Are two titles better than one?
In this case, absolutely. Caroline, or Change, a collaboration with composer Jeanine Tesori and director George C. Wolfe at New York's Public Theater, is a work in which so much hinges on that little "or" in the title. Built around parallels and contrasts, duos and dualisms, the play brilliantly constructs a series of either/ors and then defies our efforts to choose between them. Call it the theater of indecision: drama that counters ...
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Article: Crimebusters: Caroline's killer was covered in blood. Do ...
The Mirror (London, England);
February 24, 2001 ;
700+ words
... ... think twice about taking it. But pretty Caroline Glachan had known this shortcut all her ... water. She died from drowning. Today, Caroline's killer still roams free. Many believe ... Alexandria in Dunbartonshire. On the night of Caroline's death, her killer had to be covered ...
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