Sandbagging in the Shadow of the Mississippi
Charles IsherwoodJune 29, 2010: An environmental calamity cannot be easy to wrangle onto the stage. It seems unlikely that the ghastly disgorgement of oil in the Gulf of Mexico will ever inspire a Broadway musical. (Let us hope not, at least.) Still, the new play “On the Levee,” which opened on Monday night at the Duke on 42nd Street as part of Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3 series, manages to manufacture so little compelling drama from a historic natural disaster that neither the ecological scope nor the human cost comes through with much force or clarity.
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