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Fun around town, for $10 or less:

...), it makes little sense that EgoPo Productions, in their year-long Tennessee Williams festival, would choose to outsource Williams' best-known work to other theatre companies for staged readings, and produce two of his least-known, most autobiographical, and, dare I say, most self-indulgent, plays in their stead.

The third floor of the Christ Church Meetinghouse is a strange venue for a play. It's a big, open room that once served, or perhaps sometimes still serves, as a gymnasium. I've been there when it's been employed as a theatre, and also when it had been converted to a sound stage. On my most recent expedition there, it was the former, for Egopo Productions' production of a lesser-known Tennessee Williams play, . It probably seems an odd choice to produce as a kick-off for a season of Tennessee Williams, especially if you're not familiar with Ego Po. But in truth, it's the perfect way to introduce the brilliantly eccentric Williams: the play is semi-autobiographical, written by a playwright late in his life as he struggled to define his formative years for both his critics and himself, when his current and carefully-cultivated self had brought him such pain.

I would like to begin this review by strongly urging all those who believe in abstinence-only sex ed classes to see . There has never been a better defense of Joycelyn Elders' opinions on sex education—even though it was written over a hundred years before President Clinton appointed her to the office of the Surgeon General.

Lane Savadove of EgoPo theatre ensemble