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Article: Chimera fails to move audience
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- October 19, 2007
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By Kevin Prokosh
A chimera is a mixture of two or more entities into a single body.
Chimera, the Prairie Theatre Exchange's season-opener, finds playwright Wendy Lill blending science and politics and the result is not a noteworthy theatrical discovery. Her stage creation looks fine, sounds very intelligent but it doesn't particularly move, as in making the audience to feel deeply for her characters.
The catalyst is a creationist Alberta MP named George Fanning (Jon Ted Wynn) who has been tipped off that not far away from Parliament Hill scientist Nell Harrier (Doreen Brownstone) is implanting human embryonic stem cells into the brains of monkeys in the name of autism research. The two-hour ...