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Article: Trends & events.(theatrical events)
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- American Theatre
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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I WANT MY HAM
Saint Paul, Minn.: Where's the beef? Lou Bellamy, artistic director of the Penumbra Theatre Company, would rather ask a different question: Where's the ham?
Not the proverbial the-atrical ham, mind you--but the symbolic ham, the missing meat in the carrion of America's social contract. "In Two Trains Running, Hambone, a homeless man, makes a lot of noise, because he feels cheated out of a ham by a white butcher whose fence he painted," says Bellamy. "The check hasn't been cashed, and he isn't letting up until he collects his payment."
Bellamy, who has just directed Two Trains as part of Penumbra's all-August Wilson season, is ...