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Review: Cal Shakes soars with 'Superman'.

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From: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
Date: 20070709
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Byline: Pat Craig

Jul. 9--Still slightly wicked, and wickedly funny more than a century after it was written, George Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman" is an unlikely but delightful companion on a chilly summer's night in the hills above Orinda. While the cold at Saturday's opening night Cal Shakes performance was from Mother Nature, Shaw's cold examination of human nature, the life force, men and women and the question of marriage and children, was the nature of genius.

The production, which included the "Don Juan in Hell" segment that's often deleted from performances, ...

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