EMPTY SPACE'S `MORNING GLORIES' A MOODY MUSING ON REALITY AND ILLUSION.(What's Happening)(Review)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | January 9, 1998| | Copyright

As far as anyone knows, the folk heroine Calamity Jane (1852-1903) and the legendary ragtime composer Scott Joplin (1869-1917) never met. Undeterred by mere historical record, Quebec playwright Michel Garneau plunks these two down together in the parlor of a turn-of-the-century brothel in his play, ``Morning Glories.''

Perhaps ``play'' is not the right word for ``Morning Glories,'' currently at the Empty Space Theatre. The show really is not a drama, with characters and conflict, crisis and resolution. It is a meditation on those hardy perennials: reality and ...

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