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Ladies in life of D.H. Lawrence; Trio engages in a dust-up over author.(ARTS)(THEATER)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20021019
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Byline: Ann Geracimos, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The title of playwright Donna Gerdin's dark comedy, "Losing Lawrence," presented by Horizons Theatre Company at Arlington's Theatre-in-the-Run, has a double and even a triple meaning. On the surface, it is a comedy about the vagaries surrounding the final resting place of the ashes of D.H. Lawrence. Almost a Keystone Kops routine.

In the play, his larger-than-life German-born wife Frieda, who had left her Nottingham University professor husband to roam the world with the controversial English author, brings the ashes from ...

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