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She is the light in the Piazza

Mon, May 31, 2010

She is the light in the Piazza

Adapted from Elizabeth Spencer's 1960 novella of the same name, MET artistic director Karen Paisley takes center stage as Margaret Johnson, a 1950s mother thrust into "protective mode" when her simple and naïve daughter falls in love with a local boy while vacationing in Italy in "The Light in the Piazza."