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Review: “Stinney: An American Execution” at Glow Lyric Theatre, Greenville, South Carolina
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Review: “Stinney: An American Execution” at Glow Lyric Theatre, Greenville, South Carolina

To attempt creating, let alone staging, an opera about a 14-year-old Black boy’s execution requires near superhuman artistic power—along with heaping doses of audacity or guts. More likely, Frances Pollack, the young composer of “Stinney: An American Execution,” simply felt driven to dramatize the heinous event in 1944. Whatever “it” was that led her to...

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