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Southern spells

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Two Black men sit on stage, turned slight away from each other. The light is shadowy, with suggestions of tree limbs hanging overhead.

A good play, suggests Tony Kushner in his 1995 anthology Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue, “should be overstuffed.” Memorably comparing well-constructed theater to lasagna, he writes that a work of theater “should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been” and, at its best, “has a bursting […]

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