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`Rebecca' recreates turn-of-century life

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From: Bay State Banner
Date: 20011108
Author:Creasey, Beverly

Creasey, Beverly
Bay State Banner
11-08-2001
`Rebecca' recreates turn-of-century life

I remember as a little girl seeing an elaborate doll house at the
Children's Museum which opened up and out to reveal two floors of rooms and
a staircase inside. Set designer Kitty Lovell has constructed that very
doll house on the stage of the Wheelock Family Theatre, in scale large
enough to accommodate the actors of "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."

The beloved Kate Douglas Wiggin story, which was a bestseller in 1904, has
been adapted for the theater by Marisha Chamberlain.

Director Susan Kosoff and the Wheelock ...

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