The Texas Observer, September 14th, 2001
Aeschylus Lives!
Big Love
Directed by Darron L. West
August 30--September 23
The Off Center, Austin
Early in his memoir A Nearly Normal Life, the playwright Charles Mee describes how, one lovely summer evening in 1953, at a country club dance in his hometown of Barrington, Illinois, he found himself hunched over in a cold sweat, dizzy, rubbery, and faint--racked, at age 14, by the onset of polio. He goes on to write about the shattering effect polio has continued to have on his entire life.
Shattering and struggle also inform his plays, fragmented works that have, over the last 15 years,...
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