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From: Daily Breeze
Date: 20060428
Author:Jim Farber THEATER CRITIC

In Hermann Hesse's novel Steppenwolf, the central character encounters a strange troupe of players who call themselves The Magic Theatre -- "Price of admission, your mind." An encounter with "The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets," which opened Wednesday at the Ahmanson Theater, offers a similar experience.

First presented at Hamburg's Thalia Theatre in 1990, and then in 2004 by the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, "The Black Rider" is a unique collaborative creation that is Germanic in its source material, but decidedly American in its artistic input.

It fuses the ...

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