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The heart of the poet: New Heller production explores life of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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From: Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
Date: 20061024
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Byline: Karen Shade

Oct. 24--Directing a stage rendering of the life of American Jazz Age poet Edna St. Vincent Millay has been an enlightening experience for Heller Theatre's Frank Gallagher. "If you'd asked me three months ago, I'd have said, 'Not really my style.' " He recalled old impressions of a shy, prim young woman writing flowery, highly sentimentalized sonnets and roaming through nature. "I just assumed she was also a certain kind of person judging from the few poems I know," he said. "Man, she is totally different." It takes two actresses to play a ...

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