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Role Playing: Darrell W. Cox sees theater’s core in closed-off teacher of ‘Burning Boy’
![Role Playing: Darrell W. Cox sees theater’s core in closed-off teacher of ‘Burning Boy’ Actor Darrell W. Cox plays high school teacher Larry Morrow in The Dream of the Burning Boy by David West Read at Profiles 2013](https://chicagoontheaisle.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Actor-Darrell-W.-Cox-plays-high-school-teacher-Larry-Morrow-in-The-Dream-of-the-Burning-Boy-by-David-West-Read-at-Profiles-2013-125x125.jpg)
Interview: The central character Larry, an English teacher, in David West Read’s “The Dream of the Burning Boy,” is a smart, inspiring mentor to the kids around him. But when they need him as consoling father-figure, after one of their classmates dies, Larry can’t engage their pain or embrace them emotionally. For Darrell W. Cox, who delivers a wrenching portrait of the teacher at Profiles Theatre, such a closed-off, deeply complicated soul is the touchstone of great drama.