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For
over
40
years,
the
unicorn
theatre
has
developed
and
produced
thought-provoking
plays
that
address
social
issues
such
as
gender
identity,
race
and
religion,
and
the
current
season
that
is
supported
by
the
neighborhood
Tourist
Development
Fund
is
no
exception.
Today,
I
am
here
with
Cynthia
Levin,
who
is
a
producing
artistic
director
of
the
unicorn
theatre,
and
we
are
here
at
38-28
Maine,
where
all
the
action
happens.
Cynthia.
Thank
you
for
having
us
here
at
the
Unicorn.
Oh.
A
B
B
And
I
would
say
almost
half
of
the
world
premieres
that
we
have
produced
are
from
local
playwrights,
always
always
has
to
be
an
opening.
Last
year.
Reading
series,
which
is
a
series
of
six,
plays
that
we
read
for
the
very
first
time,
get
together
with
professional
actors,
invite
an
audience
in
and
sort
of
further
help
the
playwright's
further
develop
their
work
last
year
was
all
local
playwrights
in.
A
B
Absolutely
we
we
only
use
local
talent
and
oftentimes.
That
means
some
students
from
local
universities,
and
sometimes
it's
people
who
grew
up
here
and
sort
of
you
know,
found
their
way
here
and
even
maybe
got
their
union
card
here
and
then
moved
away
and
sometimes
they'll
come
back
later
and
do
a
show
they
want
to
be
home
for
the
holidays.
B
So
it's
really
cool
to
sort
of
keep
track
and
keep
in
touch
with
all
of
people
that
either
grew
up
here
or
went
to
school
here
and
in
fact,
right
now,
one
of
our
productions
were
doing
as
a
collaboration
with
UMKC.
So
that's
incredible.
We
have
students
here
graduate
students
here,
designing
you
know
and
helping
us,
along
with
the
director
and
on
all
of
the
designers,
are
working
with
the
professional
staff.
B
A
B
Try
it
is
a
magnificently,
strange
piece,
Brandon
Jacobs
Jenkins,
who
is
an
incredible
new
playwright,
contemporary
playwright.
In
fact,
he
just
won
the
MacArthur
Genius
grant
I
mean
this.
This
man
is
brilliant,
found
this
play
by
a
nineteenth-century,
Irish
playwright,
who
came
to
America
and
wrote
a
play
about
slavery
on
the
plantations,
pre-civil
war
and
all
everything
he
saw,
which
was
an
incredible
depiction
of
racism
and
classism,
and
everything
else
that
was
happening.
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Mid
1800s,
so
Brandon
found
this
play
and
he
rewrote
it
with
this
modern
21st
century
sensibility
so
and
and
just
sort
of
to
highlight
the
racist
issues,
of
course,
that
have
come
up
in
the
last
200
years
and
sort
of
still
come
up.
It
is
brilliant.
The
black
actors
play
white
actors,
the
white
actors
play
black
actors
or
or
Indian
actors,
I
mean
it's
really
sort
of
a
mishmash
of
everything
that
you
think
you
know
is
politically
correct,
which
isn't
and
vice
versa.
B
It's
it's
hilarious
and
it's
really
a
great
statement
to
a
throwback
of
what
it
was
like
and
in
many
ways
what
it's
still
like.
It's
like
the
playwright.
He
isn't
a
playwright
he's
a
black
playwright
because
that's
his
identity
and
the
identity,
that's
sort
of
given
to
him
and
for
upon
him,
and
so
he
makes
this
issue
out
of
it,
and
it's
really
really
fun.
I
mean
you
have
to
laugh
at
it,
I'm
hoping
that
people
laugh
at
it.
B
Right
right,
the
same
time
in
December
and
that's
just
fun
we're
having
a
great
time-
it's
actually
the
first
production
since
it
opened
in
New
York,
which
is
really
really
cool.
If
we
don't
do
the
first
production,
it's
really
cool
to
do
the
second
production
of
a
play
and
the
playwright's
will
be
out
here
and
it's
it's.
A
single
woman,
Jennifer
Mays
plays
this
one
woman
who
works
in
a
kindergarten
admissions
in
some
very
snooty
little.
B
You
know
preschool
in
New,
York
City,
but
she's
put
into
the
office
on
the
first
day
and
she
answers
all
of
these
calls
from
parents
wanting
to
get
their
kids
in.
Have
they
been
accepted?
You
know
they
want
to
get
their
kid,
who
hasn't
even
been
born
into
school
and
she's.
Answering
all
the
call
so
she's
playing
herself
as
the
admissions
officer
and
also
the
45
different
people
who
call
in
on
the
phone
to
sort
of
find
out
what's
going
on.
It
is
so
fun,
and
this
woman
is
incredible.
B
What
an
incredible
job
not
many
plays
are
written
to
play,
40
45
characters
in
80
minutes.
Onstage
I
went
perspire
one
person,
it's
really
fun,
so
we
really
have
to
sort
of
comedy's
one
is
you
know
just
a
satirical
sort
of
comment
on
society
today
and
the
other
is
absolutely
just
fun
and
glorious
and
you
can't
help
but
laugh
at
either
one
of
them
well.
A
B
You
know
it's
like
everything
is
on
the
website,
how
to
how
to
submit
a
play.
What
the
guidelines
are,
how
to
get
tickets
order
tickets
online.
What
the
season
is
what
the
plays
are
about.
It's
really
the
easiest
thing
to
do
is
to
just
go
online.
You
can
find
out
anything.
Of
course
they
can
always
call
the
box
office
at
eight
16
531
play
our
box
office.
Person
knows
you
know,
what's
going
on
at
all
times,
well,.