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  • n  a short play

  • A middle-aged man, cast as the wolf in a Red Riding Hood playlet, discovers that he likes to wear a furry skin and romp in predatory games.
  • In the fictional world of this playlet, everyone got a good scare, but no one got hurt, lost parents, saw dozens of office workers jump a thousand feet rather than burn to death.
  • America Hurrah, by Jean-Claude van Itallie, is a three-playlet wedding between pop art and the theater of cruelty.

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