It’s a Big Night in the Country for a Family to No Manners Born
Charles IsherwoodNovember 16, 2010: When the curtains part at Theater 80 at the beginning of “Ghosts in the Cottonwoods,” a backwoods melodrama written and directed by Adam Rapp, a naked young man covered in glaring red welts stands before us. Also onstage is a woman administering homespun first aid by sucking the leeches from the young man’s flesh, spitting each into a bucket with a tinny clank.
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