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Scenes shift too quickly in 'Red Badge'

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 20021108
Author:ELAINE SCHMIDT

Scenes shift too quickly in 'Red Badge'

By ELAINE SCHMIDT Special to the Journal Sentinel

Friday, November 8, 2002

Stephen Crane's novel "The Red Badge of Courage" is such a vivid, moving account of the horrors of the Civil War that it has not gone out of print in the 108 years since it was written.

Thomas W. Olson's adaptation of "Red Badge," currently being staged by First Stage Children's Theater under the direction of artistic director Rob Goodman, is something of a hit-and-miss proposition, in terms of capturing the power and poignancy of the original work.

The adaptation condenses the ...

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