Article
by Steven Winn of The SF Chronicle, published August 19, 2001
Buckeye
Misfits
By Steven Winn
SF Chronicle
"The story
of Louise Bentley, who became Mrs. John Hardy and lived with her husband
in a brick house on Elm Street in Winesburg, is a story of misunderstanding."
So, in author Sherwood Anderson's lean and enticingly charged prose,
begins "Surrender," a story from his indelible 1919 portrait
of small-town life in "Winesburg, Ohio." Four of those interconnected
tales come to the stage this week in a transbay production by San Francisco's
Word for Word and Berkeley's Shotgun Players. Anderson's precisely etched
work is a natural fit for Word for Word, a company devoted to theatrical
translations of the fiction writer's exacting craft. This first collaboration
with Shotgun's energized actors and sensibilities has great potential.
The attentive Delia MacDougall directs.
-- Steven Winn
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