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'MY BOY JACK' HITS HOME IN A TIME OF WAR.(LA.COM)

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From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date: 20080419
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Byline: David Kronke

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Rudyard Kipling, the first English-language winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, was a champion of British imperialism, which makes him rather out of fashion today. Still, his expansive, globe-trotting life contained elements of epic drama.

Nonetheless, "My Boy Jack," about his efforts to secure for his son a prestigious military position as World War I loomed, plays largely as an affecting chamber drama.

Written by and starring David Haig (who adapts his own stage drama), it presents Kipling (Haig) as a staunch hawk who sternly ...

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