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Article: Ladies in life of D.H. Lawrence; Trio engages in a dust-up over author.(ARTS)(THEATER)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 19, 2002
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Byline: Ann Geracimos, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The title of playwright Donna Gerdin's dark comedy, "Losing Lawrence," presented by Horizons Theatre Company at Arlington's Theatre-in-the-Run, has a double and even a triple meaning. On the surface, it is a comedy about the vagaries surrounding the final resting place of the ashes of D.H. Lawrence. Almost a Keystone Kops routine.
In the play, his larger-than-life German-born wife Frieda, who had left her Nottingham University professor husband to roam the world with the controversial English author, brings the ashes from Europe to Taos, N.M., where she resides with two equally possessive friends, Mabel Dodge ...