A Tribute to Tana Hicken
In the spring of 1978, I went to see a play at Baltimore's Center Stage, David Rudkin's Ashes. The play, about a couple's struggle to conceive a child (that somehow or other became a metaphor for the troubles in Northern Ireland) was not the sort of thing I usually enjoyed. My grad-school-taste ran to classics, and much of my own onstage experience was in musicals, but the production was excellent, and mo…