Summary
"What's a disaster if you don't have time to marvel in it?" asks actress Rebecca Fisher in her sold-out one-woman show "The Magnificence of the Disaster," playing through Sunday at TheatreWorks.
She's talking about how Southerners cope with grand-scale tragedies. It's less a mourning and more a reverie; an almost nostalgic appreciation of catastrophe .See the full content of this document
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Magnificent 'Disaster' Is a Marvel
Fisher points to the Civil War as the defining moment in our history. Rejecting every opportunity to surrender at convenient times, the Confederacy chose to "fail large," she says, and ge...
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