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Lisa D'Amour: magic places; Her locales are on the map, but you haven't been there yet.(PEOPLE)(Interview)

American Theatre,  November, 2006  by Apple, Krista

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WEST VIRGINIA, 1978: Lisa D'Amour is in the throes of a debut production--a site-specific passion play for Easter Sunday. Show business is never easy. The audience scales the mountainside with difficulty. The lead actor--D'Amour's best friend, whose long hair clinched the role--struggles with the weight of playing Jesus. (Literally: She's having trouble shouldering the cross as she trudges toward the vegetable-garden Golgotha.) Maybe the next production will go more smoothly. After all, the playwright's only eight.

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NEW YORK CITY, 2006: Lisa D'Amour's ...

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