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THEATER REVIEW | Regina Taylor's story of 1960s Atlanta bears fruit
Taken from the March 24, 2009 issue of the Chicago Tribune
By Chris Jones
Regina Taylor sets her arresting and imaginative updating of The Cherry Orchard in 1963 Atlanta, just as this shrewdest of Southern cities was changing from a sedentary Southern town, built on the backs of slaves and their descendants, to a city that styled itself as too busy to hate.
The Chekhovian battle between the Russian aristocracy and an emergent middle class is now a racially charged confrontation between the longtime white owner of a gracious plantation and an African-American businessman with the means to control the destiny of the place he grew up.
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