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Review: 'No Wider than the Heart': Stages of life.

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From: Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
Date: 20061028
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Byline: Karen Shade

Oct. 28--Play uses two actresses to explore the life of poet

Edna St. Vincent Millay was accused by some of her critics of producing sentimental, overly romantic verse.

Heller Theatre's look at that magnificently wrecked life of a woman who penned the line "My candle burns at both ends" is not sentimental, affording its audience a look at theater that is both highly inventive and beyond moving.

For "No Wider Than the Heart," which opened Thursday night, director Frank Gallagher has staged gorgeous vision of Millay's interior drama and shows ...

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