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And "Repulse of General Johnson's Division by General Geary's White Star Division" depicts the seven-hour battle for Culp's Hill, a piece of strategic high ground that was basically the last thrust by the Confederate forces against the Union right flank.
Mr. Doyle, who also designed the set for this production, has approached "Passion" not as a naturalistic love story but as a piece of lyric theater, placing it in the simplest of environments, an open thrust stage, and arranging the actors in quasiballetic stage groupings that are as poetic as the songs they sing.