COMMIE POETRY SLAM

Published April 28, 2010 at 8:00 a.m.
Wonderful words can't save Things of Dry Hours...by Christine Howey...The trouble with being a playwright who writes like a poet is that, from a theatrical perspective, you're always in danger of taking a long and lovely sounding walk off a short pier. And that's what happens in Things of Dry Hours, now at Cleveland Public Theatre.  Written by Naomi Wallace, the script offers up many incisive and lyrical phrasings, but the characters ultimately seem to be mere mouthpieces for Wallace's verbal constructs. As a result, the play offers a…


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