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Scare tactics.(SEPTEMBER on STAGE)(Red Beads)(performance)(Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York)(Theater Review)
American Theatre, September, 2005 by Gener, Randy
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NEW YORK CITY: For her 13th birthday, Daddy has promised to give Daughter the necklace of 13 beads that so fetchingly encircle her ailing Mommy's neck. But then the dog keels over, and the kitten uses up its ninth life. And on the day Daughter receives her present, dearest Mommy--"How pale she was with strawberry mouth and milk skin / Pale as a ghost"--is supplanted in the battle for sexual ascendance.
Mabou Mines's undulating Red Beads, premiering Sept. 20-24 at New York University's Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, is a bewitched Lee Breuer tone-poem ...
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