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Article: 'Le Livre Blanc' follows strange path from fringe festival.(Time Out!)(On theater)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2004
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Byline: Jack Helbig
It sometimes happens that a small theater company in Chicago will be so proud of a production they will enter it in one of the fringe festivals in the United States, Canada or Great Britain. Sometimes, these companies even do well and bring home prizes and prestige.
I've only heard of one company "trying out" a show at a fringe festival and then moving it back to Chicago for a full run. The company: The Journeymen. The production: a stage adaptation of Jean Cocteau's "Le Livre Blanc (the White Book)."
I'm glad they did.
"The White Book," which appeared at the 2003 New York Fringe Festival, is a beautiful, witty, ...