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...Polish Mime Ballet. A celebrated European company performs the comic mime The Menagerie of the Empress Phylissa, which combines ballet, mime theatre and gymnastics. One of the Loeb's special season presentations. Performances January 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. January 17 at 5 and 9 p.m., January 18 at 2:30 and 8 p.m. Rush seats...
Ghosts. Ibsen, about a woman haunted by ghosts from the past who invade and despoil her present and future. Due for a production at the Loeb this spring. At the Lyric Stage, 565 Boylston St., through February 8. Performances Friday through Sunday at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees...
That the book made it into print at all is a minor miracle. Loeb has a reputation for launching libel actions at the drop of a pejorative: New Times and the Boston Globe are currently facing Loeb suits totaling $7.5 million. Eleven publishers shied away from Cash's manuscript, and three libel insurance firms refused to underwrite his possible legal defense costs. Cash finally formed his own publishing house, Amoskeag Press, Inc. (from an old Indian name...
Manchester area), and incorporated it in Delaware to make it harder for Loeb to sue. Still, four New Hampshire printing firms would not touch the book, and Cash had to go to Vermont for a printer...
What such effrontery will cost Cash is unclear. Cash has sent Loeb a copy of the book, but the publisher declines to comment. Says Loeb: "The only response we make will be in court...