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  • REVIEW: ‘The Things They Carried’ and ‘Lonely Soldiers: Women at War in Iraq’ at the History Theatre

    Cherry and Spoonby Jill SchaferMarch 17, 2014 The History Theatre is currently producing two plays in rep, both dealing with the effects of war on the soldiers who fight in them. The Things They Carried is based on the semi-autobiographical collection of short stories by Tim O’Brien, a Minnesota man who was drafted out of…

  • REVIEW: ‘The Things They Carried’ review: One-man show recalls Vietnam with words, sounds

    Pioneer Pressby Renee ValoisMarch 17, 2014 As the Vietnam War recedes in time, the shadow it casts gets longer — and its shape changes. Men who felt rejected for fighting in the war in the 1960s are today asked to rise and receive applause for serving (as with the audience of this show). But lest…

  • REVIEW: ‘Lonely Soldiers’ Review: Play highlights hell of being a woman at war

    Pioneer Pressby Renee ValoisMarch 17, 2014 This is powerful stuff. It’s theater that begs for real change. “Lonely Soldiers: Women at War in Iraq” at History Theatre follows the paths of seven women of diverse backgrounds who ended up in Iraq. It’s based on accounts from interviews playwright Helen Benedict conducted that appeared in her…

  • ARTICLE: History Theatre looks at war on two fronts

    Pioneer Pressby Mary Ann GrossmanMarch 13, 2014   A young soldier tries to make sense of the war he’s fighting in Vietnam’s jungles. More than 30 years later, seven women soldiers are battle-tested on the sands of Iraq. These characters come to life in History Theatre’s productions of “The Things They Carried” and “Lonely Soldiers:…

  • REVIEW: ‘The Things They Carried’ is a Vietnam-era soldier’s somber look at war

    Special to the Star Tribuneby John TownsendMarch 17, 2014 Stephen D’Ambrose is superb in an emotional one-man show based on the Vietnam-era stories of Tim O’Brien. Minnesota native Tim O’Brien is a preeminent author of the Vietnam experience. His semi-autobiographical story collection, “The Things We Carried,” portrays a platoon under constant deadly threat and the…

  • REVIEW: Lonely Soldiers: Women at War in Iraq

    Aisle Say Twin Citiesby Liz ByronMarch 18, 2014 As a self-identified pacifist and feminist, I was interested in the prospect of hearing women soldier’s perspectives on the war in Iraq. And as I’ll admit that my knowledge of life in the US armed forces is very much limited to major news headlines and Hollywood blockbusters,…

  • REVIEW: ‘Lonely Soldiers: Women at War in Iraq,’ gets a combustible staging at History Theatre

    Star Tribuneby Rohan PrestonMarch 18, 2014 A soldier yells “Incoming!” then dives to safety. Lights blink on and off as the boom of an exploding mortar round rocks the theater. Eerie, held-breath silence follows as soldiers pat themselves to make sure arms and legs are still there. Still in one physical piece, even as their…

  • ARTICLE: Military women’s extra trauma: combat stress and sexual assault

    MinnPostBy Ellen J. KennedyMarch 12, 2014  More than 280,000 women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. These women, like all military personnel, have been involved in a range of capacities, from desk jobs to active engagement in firefights. Women made up 67 of the nearly 3,500 Americans lost in hostile fire in Iraq…

  • ARTICLE: Wartime Confessions: First-person accounts tell true stories from the battlefield and the barracks

    Mpls St Paul – Best of the Twin Citiesby William Randall BeardMarch 14, 2014 War is hell, and the History Theatre explores what that hell looks like up-close with two plays built around first-person accounts of combat and military life. The Things They Carried is a one-man performance of Tim O’Brien’s novel about the American…

  • REVIEW: A rare, sweet tale about a boy’s brushes with fame takes second place to national politics

    by Graydon RoyceStar Tribune Feburary 3, 2014 Ron Rabinovitz really did live a charmed childhood, thanks to a politically connected dad who happened to be a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. In conversation, Rabinovitz’s story sounds unreal — about how he became Jackie Robinson’s pen pal, and how he used to run peanut-butter sandwiches and clam chowder…