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Ibsen endings meant new beginning for Gregg Allen.(Time Out!)(On theater)

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From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Date: 20060915
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Byline: Jack Helbig

There are not a lot of theater people who could take the last two minutes of every play by Henrik Ibsen and fashion a show that is fascinating, hilarious and wise. Maybe only one: Gregg Allen, creator of the long-running "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind."

Of course, Allen has made a career out of creating amazing shows from surprising material. Like when he used Freud's deadly serious tract "Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious" and transformed it into a marvelous, surprising, unpretentious evening.

But who would have predicted his ...

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