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‘The River Was Whiskey’

Scores to settle across decades in Fancher’s ‘River’

By Don Aucoin

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 03, 2011

A hard rain, of both the literal and figurative kind, falls throughout “The River Was Whiskey,’’ a drama about race and long-delayed justice by local playwright Will Fancher. The dialogue is clipped, elliptical, and barbed with vague menace in the Sam Shepard manner, but instead of Shepard’s West, “The River Was Whiskey’’ - now at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre - primarily unfolds in 1946 in a Mississippi Delta town called Moonlight.

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