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Article: `Straight as a Line'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- September 24, 1998
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`Straight as a Line'
Through Oct. 11
Goodman Studio Theatre, 200 S. Columbus
Tickets: $18-27
(312) 443-3800
Not recommended
Two years ago, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles commissioned
Luis Alfaro to write a play about the immigrant experience. What
they got was "Straight as a Line," a two-character, 67-minute drama
about AIDS, with all the attendant cliches that have come to snake
around such plays like intravenous tubing.
The Taper should have asked for its money back, and not because
Alfaro strayed from his topic.
But as life would have it, "Straight as a Line" was produced.
It has even won competitions. And now it has found its way to the
Goodman Studio Theatre.
It's ...