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Theater; A Colorless `Red Badge'

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19930324
Author:Pamela Sommers

Sitting through "The Red Badge of Courage," the latest offering of the Kennedy Center's Theater for Young People, I felt sorry for all those young people in the audience who hadn't read the book. As adapted by Thomas W. Olson, Stephen Crane's classic study of a soldier's coming of age in the midst of the Civil War has been reduced to an hour of blurry snapshots and snippets of dialogue. There's no clear introduction to the characters, no real narrative drive, no sense of climax or resolution.

In this, his first directing assignment for the stage, actor Richard Thomas (who portrayed the young ...

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