When War Begins, Nothing Is Normal
Eric GrodeJanuary 20, 2011: “War teaches you the value of an onion,” one character explains while preparing dinner in the harrowing but credulity-straining “Honey Brown Eyes.” And while the promising young playwright Stefanie Zadravec makes it clear that such values can be almost meaningless in a world where soldiers discuss the relative sexual merits of 10- versus 12-year-old girls, her shrewd juxtaposition of domesticity and atrocity very nearly overcomes the play’s narrative faults.
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