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Article: Jack Kerouac comes home to Lowell. (biographical play performed in Lowell, Massachussetts)
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- American Theatre
- Article date:
- July 1, 1994
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Beat poet Jack Kerouac's appeal is clearly on the rise. References to the spiritual leader of the literary movement emblematic of the 1950s appear in songs by musicians like Van Morrison and 10,000 Maniacs. Long-out-of-print novels including Maggie Cassidy and Big Sur have recently been reprinted by Penguin. Kerouac has also inspired Maggie's Riff, a new play commissioned by the Merrimack Repertory Theatre in the writer's hometown of Lowell, Mass.
Adapted from Kerouac's writings by Jon Lipsky and performed at MRT this spring under the direction of David Kent, Maggie's Riff is more than a tribute to Kerouac (who was buried in Lowell after his death in 1969) and more ...
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... ... day cross-country journey seeking Jack Kerouac's America culminates here. As our bus ... evokes the essence of the writer. "Jack Kerouac had more Lowell pride in his baby finger ... Phillip Chaput says during a stop at Kerouac Park on Bridge Street. Chaput, whose ...
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