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Without the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company -- an artistic asset if ever this town had one -- Charlotte Jones' "Humble Boy" is precisely the kind of decent, quiet, complex and thoughtful show that Chicagoans would never get to see. Set in a midsummer English garden and riffing with melanc...
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Published in | Chicago tribune (1963) |
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Format | Newspaper Article |
Language | English |
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Chicago, Ill
Tribune Publishing Company, LLC
24.04.2005
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Summary: | Without the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company -- an artistic asset if ever this town had one -- Charlotte Jones' "Humble Boy" is precisely the kind of decent, quiet, complex and thoughtful show that Chicagoans would never get to see. Set in a midsummer English garden and riffing with melancholy merriment on "Hamlet," the dysfunctional family, the class system and the joys of astrophysics, this is the kind of contemporary life-as-it-is-lived play that opens at London's National Theatre with regularity. The piece lands somewhere in the soft middle ground between the warm social comedy of Alan Ayckbourn and the tarter aesthetic tricks of Tom Stoppard. James Bohnen's superbly cast production is both funny and emotionally resonant; closes tonight at the Victory Gardens Theatre, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.; $30-35; 773-871-3000. |
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ISSN: | 1085-6706 |