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American Theatre, March, 2005 by Hart, Sarah
"I'm always a little embarrassed talking about it because I don't think of myself writing weird, avant-gardey stuff, but when you say the play is narrated by a goat, people slot it into a certain category." Glen Berger--whose plays, if they must be categorized, could be tagged whimsically brainy--is trying to describe O Lovely Glowworm, or Scenes of Great Beauty, which runs March 22-April 24 at Oregon's Portland Center Stage (after a workshop production during the theatre's 2003 Just Add Water/West new play festival).
The goat--who is actually a stuffed goat--has come back to life on a garbage heap and doesn't know where he is or what has happened to him; he distracts himself from his immense pain (life after taxidermy isn't easy) by inventing stories....
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