Zimmerman touch: With an alchemy worthy of Midas, the Chicago-based director transforms classic tales into stage gold.(Mary Zimmerman)
American Theatre, March, 2002 by Jones, Chris
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IN THE FALL OF 1992, THE UNITED STATES WAS UNLOADING BOMBS on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. And in an old post office on a yet-to-be-gentrified strip of Belmont Avenue on the North Side of Chicago, a largely unknown adapter-director-graduate student named Mary Zimmerman had joined forces with some of her college friends on a collective, bare-bones adaptation of Tales from the Arabian Nights.
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