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We Are Now Entering The Theatre Time Zone (Bring Earplugs And A Blanket)

by Chloe Veltman

Why does time so often play tricks on us when we go to the theatre? Why do plays rarely feel the length that they actually are -- even ones that claim a unity of time, place and action?I asked myself these questions as I left the Magic Theatre last night after opening night of Anna Ziegler's perfunctory-schmaltzy new play set in a kids' camp in Maine, Another Way Home.The drama, in which an American, upper middl…

SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:56pm on November 14, 2012