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Pitch-perfect, fluid 'A Room With a View' offers panoramas.

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From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
Date: 20061026
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Byline: Chris Jones

Oct. 26--At the start of the Lifeline Theatre's lovely new adaptation of E.M. Forster's "A Room With a View," we see the aptly named heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, supine on a trapeze. It's not an image Forster would have immediately recognized -- his Miss Honeychurch indulged the limited sensual expression available to a well-bred young woman of 1908 by playing the pianoforte. But the stage is not a page. And in theatrical terms, Dorothy Milne's inspired idea to represent musical escapism with an acrobatic maneuver perfectly evokes the central personal ...

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