In 1865, Charles Dickens, his mistress Ellen Ternan, and her mother were all on a train that derailed in Kent, England. Dickens used his hat to carry water to the survivors (and some that didn’t make it). That grim footnote in history forms the basis for Michael Hollinger’s Mr. Dickens’ Hat, a play with music […]
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Incorruptible
Incorruptible, LeTraunik Productions, at Chicago Dramatists Workshop. Michael Hollinger’s comedy (not to be confused with Christopher Cartmill’s much praised drama of the same name) opens with a lengthy Gregorian chant version of the theme for The Monkees, played over the PA system. Later we hear similar versions of R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” and Rod Stewart’s […]