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Fine performances highlight 'Thoreau'

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From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20031110
Author:Ivan M. Lincoln Deseret Morning News

THE NIGHT THOREAU SPENT IN JAIL, Jewett Center, Westminster College, through Saturday (832-2135). Running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes (one intermission).

Henry David Thoreau (whose mother kept twisting his name around as "David Henry") was about 160 years ahead of his time. He was into downsizing and simplifying long before it became trendy, and -- ideologically -- he was way outside the box, brazenly going against the grain of the rigid thinking that prevailed in Concord, Mass., in the 1840s.

"The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" is about much more than one fitful night in a Concord jail cell. ...

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