The book that came in from the cold. (Front and Center). (theater review)
American Theatre, March, 2002 by Wren, Celia
"IT WAS A CULT CLASSIC BEFORE THERE were cult classics," playwright John Longenbaugh says of The Man Who Was Thursday, the phantasmagoric 1908 novel of eccentric anarchists, philosopher-detectives and a riddle-writing criminal mastermind who just might be God. Subtitled "A Nightmare," this masterpiece by G.K.
Chesterton--better known for his Father Brown detective series-mingles theological brainteasing with cloak-and-dagger capers like a cross-country balloon chase and a bombing conspiracy fomented over jam and crumpets. Though its fans have included such ...
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