The Village Voice, August 3rd, 2005
MY LIFE AS A FAIRY TALE Libretto by Erik Ehn Music by Stephin Merritt Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John JayCollege Closed An international puzzle out of Danish fairy tales? Your cultures can get cross. Last year, the Chinese director Chen Shi-Zheng provided one of the Lincoln Center Festival's genuine delights with The Orphan of Zhao, an American recension of a traditional Chinese play, with a text by David Greenspan and songs by the rock musician Stephin Merritt. This year, Chen tried a more complex leap across a series of cultures, celebrating Hans Christian Andersen's centennial with a pi...
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