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`Uncle Tom' falls flat in modern adaptation.(Arts and Lifestyle)

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20021019
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By ROBERT NESTI

"Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life," based on the original work by Harriet Beecher Stowe, adapted by Floraine Kay and Randolph Curtis Rand; presented by the Coyote Theatre, at the Boston Center for the Arts through Nov. 2.

Stage versions of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" were so popular in 19th century America that companies spent their careers "Tomming," as it was called, barnstorming the country with various adaptations. It appears that Stowe's blend of sentiment, spectacle and piety had ...

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