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Book of Days
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 3, 2002
Closed Dec 8, 2002

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Signature Theatre Company continues its Lanford Wilson season with the New York premiere of Book of Days. The mysterious death of a prominent community leader threatens to undermine the solid foundation of a small Midwestern town. Unfolding day by day over the course of a tumultuous summer, the play rolls together family, politics, religion, business, and the theater, as it tells the complex story of a community's ability to face hard truths and still hold together. Marshall W. Mason directs a cast that includes Alan Campbell, Jonathan Hogan, Tuck Milligan, and Miriam Shor.

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Signature Center
480 W 42nd St
New York, NY 10036


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The literary map of the United States is configured differently from the actual map, although new communities spring up at least as often on the former as on the latter. Glance at the literary map lately and you'll find Dublin, Missouri, which is where Lanford Wilson's Book of Days takes place. It's a familiar town located somewhere between Grover's Corners and Peyton Place -- the kind of burg where a sole industrialist has all of the money and power, not to mention a beautiful but frosty wife and a ne'er-do-well scion. Here, at first glance, the rest of the citizenry are God-fearing but, at second glance, don't fear God so much that they'll resist expediently twisting His words.

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Reviewed by David Finkle on Nov 4, 2002

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