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Article: Undermain's 'Shining City' continues tradition of ghostly plays: Theater:Undermain continues its communion with spirits in a haunting new drama.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Byline: Lawson Taitte
Sep. 22--Katherine Owens says she's never seen a ghost. Her patrons at Undermain Theatre have, though, repeatedly.
The Undermain's artistic director has come in for a certain amount of ribbing over the years for the number of plays that have had ghosts in them, not to speak of assorted witches, zombies, monsters, vampires, gods, embodied Jungian archetypes and other spooky stuff.
Remember, Undermain isn't one of those theaters that present popular Halloween shows or commemorate the Day of the Dead. These ghosts and other supernatural phenomena cropped up in all sorts of serious dramas, often of the avant-garde variety, as ...