The Slog to the Sea, Accompanied by Speeches of Unlikely Eloquence
Charles IsherwoodMay 7, 2012: CHICAGO — The sound of snoring in the audience preceded the drumbeat of footsteps onstage at a recent performance of “The March,” Frank Galati’s studious but lifeless stage adaptation at the Steppenwold Theater here of the E. L. Doctorow novel about Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s victorious sweep through Georgia and the Carolinas during the latter days of the Civil War. The unmistakable wheeze of a sleeping patron is not unheard of at the theater, certainly, but never before have I felt envious of the fellow drifting off to dreamland.
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