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Perspective

Sep. 22, 2012

Review: 1998 production hits home in 2012

Written in 1997 and first produced in Toronto in 1998, the play's similarity to the August shootings in Milwaukee is eerie. By Alan Friedenthal


By Alan Friedenthal


When Neo Nazis sought to march in Skokie, Illinois in 1977, a chill rippled through the Jewish community there and the nation. And through the legal community.


That chill and the thaw that follows in another similar context are nobly addressed in David Gow's "Cherry Docs," now playing Thursday nights at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga through Oct. 13.


Nazis marching and the First Amendment are...

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