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...good metaphor for The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail is the scenery used: sparse and effective, but a little empty. The play takes place on a stage bare except for the two beds in the prison cell, which sometimes turn into benches, and a chair or two, which are sometimes used as a boat. And these are sufficient...
...first the play, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, seems a little fragmented, and Thoreau (Josh Frost) ditsy rather than wise. But in the course of the performance, the play takes form. Lawrence and Lee use a series of flashbacks explaining Thoreau's civil disobedience and his getting out of jail, as well as a dream sequence involving the Mexican war. Also, various characters, such as Emerson and Thoreau's mother, appear to say things from the past, as voices from Thoreau's memory...
Focusing on the life and philosophies of Henry David Thoreau '37, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail runs through next weekend as well...
...Night Thoreau Spent in Jail...
...former president of The Crimson, worked after graduation for The New Yorker, where he wrote the "Talk of the Town" column. At times, The End of Nature reads like an extended New Yorker column, as it dashes from current scientific theory to the literary rhapsodies of Henry D. Thoreau (Class of 1837) to his own experiences in upstate New York...