Bob Dylan Conor Macpherson state Minnesota USA city Duluth, state Minnesota Bob Dylan Conor Macpherson state Minnesota USA city Duluth, state Minnesota

‘Girl From the North Country’: Theater Review

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Some people think Bob Dylan’s music is depressing — and in “Girl From the North Country,” Conor McPherson makes the case by setting more than twenty of Dylan’s songs into a surprisingly sturdy narrative about the residents of a seedy boarding house in Duluth, Minnesota, at the height of the Depression in 1934.

Although individual tunes like “Slow Train” and “Duquesne Whistle” feel as if they were written in direct response to the Great Depression, other songs don’t always suit the specific dramatic situations in which they’re set.

But overall, the morose music captures the bleakness of the period and the down-and-out hopelessness of those Americans who barely lived through it.

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