The Village Voice, November 16th, 2005
We would prefer not to miss the nuance of Melville's story
BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER
By R.L. Lane, adapted from Herman Melville
Blue Heron Theatre
123 East 24th Street
212-868-4444
FAIL-SAFE
More than a century before Wall Street's current debacles of greed, the dark canyons of the financial district provided Melville with grist for his moral imagination and produced the immortal Bartleby. This enigmatic law clerk confounds his employer, a prosperous chancery lawyer, by declining to do any work or leave his premises, always with the same polite explanation: "I would prefer not to."
In R.L...
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