COLUMBIA — The inside of a coffee shop was transformed into Gotham City, Constantinople and a dusty warehouse, all inside an hour. The audience could hear the taunts in Batman’s voice as he left a message “On Selina Kyle’s Answering Machine.” They could smell the blood of broken families during “The Siege of Byzantium.” They could feel the shame of being on a shelf, forgotten and one of the unused “Older Piñatas.”
Poetry leaps off the page at Cherry Street Artisan
Friday, September 28, 2007 | 12:00 p.m. CDT;
updated 3:46 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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