[NEohioPAL] Review of "A Civil War Christmas" at Dobama Theatre

[Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL]

Dobama's 'A Civil War Christmas' conveys an unconventional silent night 

 

Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics 

 

 

While most local theaters are offering garish visions of sugar plums, stories about resurrection or overtly sentimental reenactments of festive holiday gatherings, leave it to Dobama Theatre to buck tradition and tell a poignant and ecumenical tale about suffering and loss.

 

"A Civil War Christmas" is a beautifully written and gorgeously told story about lives in dramatic transition during the unforgiving winter of 1864.  Everyone who walks across the stage and into our lives during this well-paced but quite lengthy production is in search of something or someone that has been sacrificed during the War Between the States, and is in desperate need for its return.



For more of this review, go to:  http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/features/article_f62c9a32-7fcd-11e4-8d29-775bcf0a8737.html


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