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Audiences had to find the show in the boonies and contend with frosty noses and amorous goats (not to mention O'Neill's libidinous yarn)."
MOST NEW THEATRE COMPANIES ARE LAUNCHED ON A SURGE OF desire-and rarely, these days, is it Eugene O'NeilPs. But it was a site-specific "reconsideration" of the playwright's Desire Under the Elms, performed on a farm outside the Austin city limits one chilly November, that led to the formation of the dirigo group. Despite the fact that audiences had to find the show in the boonies and contend with frosty noses and amorous goats (not to mention O'Neill's libidinous yarn), this desire (lowercase "d," like the company's moniker), with its real barn, documentary crew interviewing the characters and daredevil acting, quickly became the talk of the town. It was hailed...