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...Unplugged has become a '90s rite of rock 'n' roll passage. It's an easy way to gain some artistic respectability and seem down to earth all at the same time: go on TV and perform in an intimate setting, quietly strumming your aged and weathered guitar. Rod Stewart's done it. Neil Young's done it. R.E.M. and Arrested Development and Eric Clapton have all done it, and all have made some big bucks off the albums that were born from these quiet evenings with friends (save R.E.M., who haven't released their Unplugged sessions...
...Poppy M. Stewart, a clerk at Roosevelt Towers, which was a polling place for the first time this year, said, "turnout has been great." She said there was no confusion, because, "everyone was sent a card...
directed by Sarah Toby Stewart...
...direction also begins promisingly. Sarah Toby Stewart marshalls her gaggle of country folk effectively, generating a bustling town-about-its-business atmosphere with relatively few people. She makes imaginative use of the mainstage space, and thinks carefully about the blocking of her cast...
...this thoughtfulness eventually takes on a mannered, self-conscious tone. The audience can see the actors rearranging themselves after every speech; meaningful glances are bandied around pointedly during the opening scenes a la Perry Mason, and Stewart won't surrender an inch of the theatre to dead space. The action studiously invades the left and right side stages and even the aisle...