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Article: Imagination's Flightless 'Junebug'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 14, 2007
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Apathy surrounds poor young Junebug, a smart but angst-ridden
boy who's severely reluctant to join his school's soccer league.
Where is David Beckham when you need him?
More so, where is the soccer star's kind of dynamism when you
need it? The somewhat-inert new play "Junebug and the Reverend,"
premiering at Imagination Stage, could use it.
"Junebug and the Reverend" is adapted from the children's book by
Alice Mead, a writer admirably determined to depict kids coping with
serious issues: the dissolution of a family, the incarceration of a
loved one, illness and old age. Unfortunately, Mead's thematically
ambitious narrative hasn't made a hugely successful transition to
the medium of ...