MADISON, Wis. — Election news has proliferated just about every public arena in recent months and now it has made its way to a local stage.A group of students moved election coverage into a format that is both new and old in a project called “A Living Newspaper,” WISC-TV reported.It was something created during the Great Depression by the Federal Theater Project to bring awareness to controversal issues by having actors write and present monologues and vignettes from news coverage. Now, a group of Universiyt of Wisconsin theater students are hoping to use their acting craft in the same way — to inform.
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