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Oak Park Festival Theatre uncovers hidden depths in You Can’t Take It With You

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Director Jason Gerace focuses on character development, not punchlines. There are probably safer plays in the American theater canon than George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s Pulitzer Prize-winning chestnut about a family of eccentrics who do their thing while the rest of the world toils in quiet desperation—but I can’t think of any. First produced in 1936, in the middle of the Great Depression, the play is almost entirely shadow free: no money worries, no personal problems.…

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