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Article: `GERTRUDE STEIN & A COMPANION' INTIMATE, AFFECTIONATE TWO-CHARACTER STUDY.(Entertainment)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- June 5, 1996
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Fifty years after her death, the memory of writer Gertrude Stein is very much alive.
She was a pivotal part of the documentary film ``Paris Was A Woman,'' which played at the Seattle International Film Festival, and now Brown Bag Theatre is staging Win Wells' play ``Gertrude Stein & A Companion.''
Of the two, the theater piece about the American writer who moved to Paris and became an influence on Ernest Hemingway and a close friend to Pablo Picasso is a more intimate and enjoyable experience.
The dream-like play features only two characters - Stein and her longtime companion, Alice B. Toklas - both reminiscing and acting out parts of their ...