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Past Imperfect; The Delaware Theatre Company's tender drama shows the malleability of memory.
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The most remarkable thing about Michael Healey's The Drawer Boy is its simplicity. In an era when most plays are stuffed with issues, Healey's gentle drama at the Delaware Theatre Company is refreshingly crisp and compact. It's a plain story that uses theater's immediacy and its storyteller roots to investigate how the past informs the present.
Based on a landmark event in Canadian theater history, the story concerns Miles (Richard Fromm), a young actor whose company is creating a play...
