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Article: Women work wonders with solo shows
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 14, 1995
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The operative word in local theater this season, if not every
season, is spectacle. From the 7 1/2-hour political-religious
ceiling smashing of "Angels in America" to the upcoming nine-week
storming of the barricades by "Les Miserables" -- with the visually
breathtaking "Henry V" at the American Repertory Theatre thrown in
for good measure -- there's been a lot of bang for the considerable
bucks.
And yet some of the most powerful theater this season, if not
every recent season, has been the complete opposite. As a form, the
one-woman show has now proven itself as a source of consistently
engrossing performance. Julie Harris set the standard as Emily
Dickinson in "Belle of Amherst" in ...