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Chuck Galle 2013 <br /> Martha Keravuori 2013 m <br /> TALENTED TEENS DO IT ALL IN CARRBORO <br /> We were frankly astonished back in March when we dropped <br /> in on 1Song Production' s performance of Denial at Common <br /> Ground Theatre in Durham. Denial deals with a right-wing <br /> Holocaust denier, being prosecuted for his views and <br /> defended by a dedicated young, female, Jewish lawyer with a <br /> firm belief in the First Amendment. With a cast, crew and <br /> production staff made up entirely of high school students, <br /> we expected a nice effort, and were willing to overlook a <br /> lot of serious amateurism. But, instead, these kids knocked <br /> our socks off. The breadth of understanding of deep and <br /> subtle emotional contradictions and philosophical concepts <br /> far exceeded our limited expectations. We later learned the <br /> group - under different management and direction each couple <br /> of years for the past decade, have shouldered A Midsummer <br /> Night's Dream, Hamlet, Measure For Measure, and the Tempest <br /> as well as the Pillow Man. Not light fare for very <br /> experienced companies, let alone high schoolers. We did not <br /> write a review at the time, because their finances don't <br /> allow them to perform but for one weekend, but the work <br /> these young people are doing merits mention and attention. <br /> This weekend they present the very difficult Language of <br /> Angels by Naomi Lizuki, the head of the MFA Playwriting <br /> program at UC San Diego. The play takes place in rural North <br /> Carolina, and weaves Appalachian poverty and despair with <br /> Japanese Noh Theater structures and meditations on grief, <br /> loss, murder and karma. We anticipate that this production <br /> will live up to the high standards we discovered last month, <br /> and we strongly suggest lovers of good theater give it a <br /> try. <br />