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Article: CYNTHIA OZICK'S New Scene: In her first play, the noted author turns
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- August 18, 1994
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Roberta Elliott
The Jewish Week
08-18-1994
CYNTHIA OZICK'S New Scene: In her first play, the noted author turns. her sights on the Holocaust denial movement.
ROBERTA ELLIOTT
SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH WEEK
Cynthia Ozick, the award-winning writer whose short stories, novels and essays so frequently mine the depths of the Holocaust, is as high as a kite. For most of the summer she has been sequestered in Sag Harbor, L.I., doing what does not come naturally to her -- revising and rewriting -- as the Bay Street Theatre Festival prepares to launch the world premiere of her first play, "Blue Light." Yet she couldn't be happier.
"I did 11 drafts. When I first heard the word 'draft,' I became inflamed. ...