Yellow Wallpaper playing at Angels Gate Cultural Center

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From: Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
Date: 20080214
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San Pedro

A new play based on a late 19th-century story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman will be read at Angels Gate Cultural Center. Bryan Davidson adapted "Yellow Wallpaper" from Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," a short story about a woman's slide into psychosis when her physician husband confines and deprives her of all intellectual stimulation as a cure for "temporary nervous depression." Davidson wrote "War Music," a triple Ovation Award- winning drama that premiered in Los Angeles in 2002. The reading is the second of a three-part series featuring works by L.A. writers read ...

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