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THEATER

The Playwright as Anthropologist, Observing the Professoriate

What is so often missing is context. And as we diplomats know, not having context is a dangerous thing.

 — Jean-Claude Buisson, a character in The Overwhelming

Isolated in their silos of self-concern, the characters in J.T. Rogers's dramas miss too much. And the consequences...

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