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Article: `White Rose' Misses Terror Of Nazi-Era Resistance
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 18, 1993
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Lillian Garrett-Groag's "The White Rose" has its heart in the
right place. But virtually everything else about this Nazi-era
drama, now being presented at Evanston's Northlight Theatre, feels
distinctly off-center.
Inspired by the true story of five students at the University of
Munich who boldly and somewhat innocently acted against Hitler's
fascist regime, the play is a fictionalized account of their capture,
inquisition and trial over the course of five days in 1943.
More often than not, however, "The White Rose" unspools like a
made-for-television campus drama about America in the 1960s, with the
fervent but naive protesters facing off against an embattled local
police chief as the ...