The following article appeared in the Santa Barbara Independent when Touch the Names was being produced by the Ensemble Theatre. It tells the story of the genesis of the play.
Letters That Will Live Forever
by Charles Donelan
Writer/director Randal Myler and musician Chic Street Man share the relaxed confidence of veteran performers. Myler won a Tony for It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues, and Spunk, Chic Street Man’s collaboration with George C. Wolfe in adapting the work of Zora Neale Hurston, is legendary in the theater world. But the new show they have written together, Touch the Names, which opens at the Ensemble Theatre this weekend, is about another kind of veteran, one that never got much chance to relax or grow confident—the Vietnam veteran. Read more… |
