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Article: MILLER'S `GHOST' BOTH HAUNTING, ENGROSSING.(Entertainment)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 21, 1997
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Ghosts play an important role in the theater. It is the ghost of the dead King of Denmark that spurs the action in Shakespeare's ``Hamlet.'' In Ibsen's ``Ghosts,'' specters play a more figurative, but no less central role.
Even when a theater is shutting down for the night, there is a ghostly reference. After the set and props have been stored, a worker rolls a metal stand to center stage with a single light bulb sitting atop it. This ``ghost light'' casts an eerie glow onto the walls of the stage and auditorium.
It is into this evanescent world that Empty Space Theatre places Jason Miller's ``Barrymore's Ghost.''
Slipping from the shadows in ...