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Article: TRACERS' SMELLS OF NAPALM IN THE MORNING.(RHYTHM)(THEATER)(Column)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- May 30, 2002
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Byline: Nadine Goff
Cara Peterson is excited about directing "Tracers" for First Banana Productions. It's a play she's wanted to direct for several years because she's interested in both its subject and the way the play was created.
"Tracers" is a play about the Vietnam War, created by a group of actors -- and one writer -- who are all Vietnam veterans. Conceived by John DiFusco, the play was developed during a series of workshops conducted in early 1980. In addition to DiFusco, seven other men share the credit for writing "Tracers," a play full of oral history and what New York Times theater critic Frank Rich called "an almost surreal litany of ...