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Article: Drought of Originality Hurts `Green Meadows'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 31, 1995
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`Murder in Green Meadows' Through March 5
Victory Gardens Theater,
2257 N. Lincoln
Tickets, $23-28
(312) 871-3000
It will come as no great revelation that suburbia - neat lawns and
two-car garages notwithstanding - has its share of misery, and that
life outside the city offers no guarantee of protection from unhappy
marriages, domestic violence, alcoholism or even murder. So on the
most obvious count, "Murder in Green Meadows," Douglas Post's
psychological thriller now at Victory Gardens Theater, has little
new to say.
Post's suggestion that morality also can be up for grabs among
cocooning suburbanites (or "bub-surbians" as one character refers to
her own breed), is hardly an ...