Desire Under the Elms OFF-BROADWAY REVIEWS

• NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF Desire Under the Elms

  For Some Mothers, Letting Go Is So Hard to Do

  Charles Isherwood

  February 4, 2009: Peg, a bourbon-steeped, whiskey-voiced screenwriter who finds herself on the rocks in Omaha in 1949, says she used to be MGM’s go-to gal for script editing. But if Peg (played by the ever commanding Kathleen Turner) is feeling underemployed, then why, oh why, doesn’t she take a blue pencil to the play in which she appears?

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