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    FEDUNN

    How odd of God to choose the Jews, a Jewish writer once noted. Murray Mednick's questing character Eli agrees. "How can you be an American and a Jew at the same time?" he queries—an unanswered question in a play full of them. Questions and concerns of how to ...

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    COUPLING UP

    Here's a case of a few small components making a cohesive whole. Four actors in six sketches framed by videos capture the mainly truculent moods of meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. Crisply scripted by Paige Baxter and Terry Hart, this work introduces us to a series of characters who ...

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    A Queer Carol

    Presented by SourceWorks Theatre at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre, 61 Christopher St., NYC, Dec. 6-21.

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    DUBYA 2000

    Playwright/director Rik Keller's endlessly fertile imagination spawned this three-hour election-year anti-Bush theatrical polemic cross-pollinated by Halloween, murderous mother Susan Smith, and scion George Dubya ("W") pursuing a family tradition of public service—to unholy Satanism. Peppered with political arcana appreciable by only those already in the know, this ...

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    THE DJINN

    A folkloric image from ancient Persia, the djinn, or genie, is familiar in Scheherazade's Arabian Nights tales and from TV's I Dream of Jeannie. Peter Atkins' new rock 'n' roll horror mystery, however, is conjured from depths of the human psyche and presents a much less congenial creature ...

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    A... MY NAME IS ALICE

    Twenty-eight writers and/or composers, including such notable talents as Anne Meara and Amanda McBroom, contributed to Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd's loosely structured 1984 revue about the joys and sorrows of contemporary women. After viewing this 90-minute (plus intermission) piece, it strikes us as a lot of ...

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    Down South

    Presented by Rattlestick Productions at the Rattlestick Theatre, 224 Waverly Place, NYC, June 18-Oct. 14.

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    LEAR'S DAUGHTERS

    The interesting thing about this 1987 prequel to King Lear, written by Elaine Feinstein with the Women's Theatre Group in London, isn't its conception of how three little princesses became the women portrayed in Shakespeare's play: cruel and avaricious Regan and Goneril, and honest and loyal Cordelia ...

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    CARY AND GALLO: WHAT IF WE DID THIS?

    This clever blend of bizarre comedy sketches and original short films had an audience in stitches on the night reviewed. Comedy duo Josh Cary and Patrick Gallo—two friends who developed their absurdist shtick while sharing a tiny New York apartment—co-write with Ted Sullivan (who directs), Paul Sullivan (director ...

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    TROJAN WOMEN AND IPHIGENIA IN AULIS

    Adaptation at its best is like spirited debate, two viewpoints mingling in an act both collaborative and contentious. When less successful, it's more like mainstream political debate: watered-down, static, and polite. It leaves us asking, What's the point of arguing if we tend to agree? More specifically, what ...