SR review: “Howards End” at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
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Douglas Post’s adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel loses some nuance in its race to the finish Theater review by Kris Vire Eliza Stoughton and Mark Ulrich in Howards End at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company E.M. Forster’s 1910 novel centers on three English families of varying means, and varying attitudes about what it means to have said means. The Wilcoxes are well-off, with the family business in African rubber plantations; they’ve wealth enough to collect houses as children collect tadpoles, as another character observes, and to never have to consider what it might be like to be without wealth.
SR review: “Howards End” at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
SR review: “Howards End” at Remy Bumppo…
SR review: “Howards End” at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
Douglas Post’s adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel loses some nuance in its race to the finish Theater review by Kris Vire Eliza Stoughton and Mark Ulrich in Howards End at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company E.M. Forster’s 1910 novel centers on three English families of varying means, and varying attitudes about what it means to have said means. The Wilcoxes are well-off, with the family business in African rubber plantations; they’ve wealth enough to collect houses as children collect tadpoles, as another character observes, and to never have to consider what it might be like to be without wealth.