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The Lady in the Red Dress
A white middle aged lawyer working on compensation for the Chinese Head tax is forced to confront his culpability. The play moves back and forth between between 1923 and 2006
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Katie and Craig are having a baby… with a surrogate… who lives in India. A month before the baby’s due date, Craig reluctantly travels to the subcontinent, where he meets Suraiya, their young, less-than-thrilled surrogate. As all three “parents” anxiously wait for the baby to be born, flights of fancy attack them from all sides, in the form of an unctuous Frenchman and a smart-mouthed fetus. A whimsical take on modern day colonialism.
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First produced
2015, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago
Publication year
2016
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Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN
9780573799976
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