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Your clue: “Based on a 1927 silent film banned by Stalin for its frank depiction of a romantic triangle – and for its defense of individual freedom in the face of repression.”
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Your clue was: “I’m thinking this is where it all began.”
Our winner: Eric Fry was first to recognize Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Nickelson in “Innocent Thoughts,” Shadow Theatre’s first show in 1997. We posted it as an homage to Colorado’s only black theater company marking its move into its first real permanent home April 24. Shadow now lives on in state-of-the-art new digs at East Colfax Avenue and Dayton Street. Hence the clue about this being where it all began. Way to go, Eric!
This seminal Denver drama by William “Missouri” Downs won the National Playwrights Award for examining the relationship between blacks and Jews in America. Directed by Michael R. Duran.
Wrote Thom Wise of the Rocky Mountain News: “It features a strong two-man cast and a script that raises a number of rhetorical questions about race in America, but comes up short on solid resolutions.”
Bob Bows, coloradodrama.com: “While some of the arguments that the playwright draws from everyday life are sometimes nothing more than the reiteration of shallow bigotry, and in other cases over-simplifications that still pass as the truth, the basic questions are there for the taking: How do two groups which both have histories of persecution, and which shared an activism for common causes in the late ’60’s, find themselves so often at odds today?”
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