To describe certain situations, one can as easily reach for the word “cliche” as the word “truth.”
Were it not for playwright Craig Wright’s gift for sure-footed, emotionally valid dialogue, that’s the choice one would face with his play “The Pavilion,” now at the Rattlestick Theater in New York City.
As evidence of Wright’s skill in writing characters with cross-grained dimensions, he just finished a four-year assignment co-writing many of the scripts for the television series “Six Feet Under.”
“Pavilion,” written in 2000 and one in a series of plays set in the small town of Pine City, Minn., has been produced at 50 regional theaters and earned Wright a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
It’s a touching love story about two high school sweethearts separated by cruel reality who meet again at their class’s 20-year reunion. The play examines with eloquence and lyricism the cosmic dimensions of time and the painful process of forgiveness.
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