The Stranger, September 28th, 2006
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Strawberry Theatre Workshop at Richard Hugo House Through Oct 8. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, adapted from the Pulitzer-winning novel by Thornton Wilder, is extraordinarily talky, runs nearly three hours long, and involves Japanese-style puppets as actors. It is also extraordinarily good, if you have the patience. I sat with two friends during the performance. One fell asleep. One wept. Wilder's story (adapted by Greg Carter, artistic director of the Strawberry Theatre Workshop) begins with an accident: In 1714, a monk is in rural Peru, near a famous bridge, when ...
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