High School Confidential

Praying for Rain takes a personal look at teen violence.

A A A Comments By Jim Lillie Thursday, Mar 23 2000

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Brett Amole

Teach your children well: Gene Gillette, Dee Covington and Misti McBride in Praying for Rain.

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Curious Theatre Company

Through May 6

303-623-0524

Opening-night fundraiser and pre-show reception for SAFE (Sane Alternatives to the Firearms Epidemic), 8 p.m. Saturday, March 25; tickets $35 (seniors and students $20)

Acoma Center, 1080 Acoma Street

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When the lights rise on Curious Theatre's version of this most personal of plays, it's likely that Vaughan will harbor hopes similar to those that his boyhood idol expressed in his dedicatory preface to Long Day's Journey: "I give you the original script of this play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood," wrote O'Neill to his wife, Carlotta, whom he credited for helping him to re-examine his past "with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness." Perhaps in the same way that America's greatest playwright was inspired to face his demons, local audiences will be moved by Vaughan's drama to begin, in O'Neill's words, "a Journey into Light -- into love."

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