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ECHOES OF WAR
From: The Village Voice
Date: 20040721
Author:Feingold, Michael
SIGHTLINES
ECHOES OF WAR
By J.M. Barrie
Mint Theater
311 West 43rd Street
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During World War I, James M. Barrie, the most tormentedly truthful of escapists, wrote Echoes of the War, a series of one-act trifles that edge, unnervingly, around the conflict and its hideous cost in corpses. The Mint, reviving two of them, has had the sense to cast lead actors who can give these semiprecious pebbles a diamond glow. Richard Easton, curtly blustery as a father sending his teenage son off to fight in France, husks the amusing corn of The New Word with a sure hand.
Then, in The Old Lady ...
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