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Though the concert only lasted 20 minutes, observing the purposeful grace with which piano student Yun Ji Kim strode onto the stage made it clear that she intended to take the show just as seriously as a longer performance. Pausing for a moment to bow to the audience, she steadily proceeded to the bench of one of the hall's beautiful grand pianos.
Strange, very strange. For theatergoers looking for an eye-opening, brow-furrowing experience: look no further than Caryl Churchill's Far Away, the first of two spring plays in the 79th season of Hamline's Theater Department. The show is divided into five acts and runs only 40 minutes but still manages to be confusing the entire way through.