The Other German Ring. (Front and Center).(Brief Article)
American Theatre, November, 2001 by Brown, Lenora Inez
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Last spring when Rick Davis, artistic director of the Theater of the First Amendment, scheduled a fall production of Gotthold Lessing's 1799 play Nathan the Wise, he had no idea how timely the choice would be. "We didn't forecast any sort of cataclysm," commented Davis one week after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "We chose Nathan the Wise in the context of the ongoing world strife (partly in the Middle East), based on a misconception of religion as a justification of heinous acts."
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