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Steppenwolf tries to fire up Gorky in `Time To Burn'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19970224
Author:ANDREW PATNER

Time To Burn Through March 30

Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted Tickets, $24.50-$27.50 (312) 335-1650 Somewhat recommended A well-intentioned attempt to update a theater classic falls too often into caricature. In perilous times, artists from many cultures often turn to the sprawling flophouse of Maxim Gorky's "The Lower Depths" for both critical metaphor and literal setting. Written in 1902, on the eve of the Revolution of 1905, this Russian classic was one of the great triumphs for Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre. Thieves, gamblers, artists, addicts, the sick and the lame all find ...

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