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Mukherjee creates Tara’s unique relationship with each of her two sisters through the establishment of a history of hushed conversations overheard through Calcutta doors. Into this mixture she stirs a mystery: an uninvited guest arrives one day and claims that he is Tara’s oldest sister’s bastard son. This possible imposter sends Tara on a search that leads her to discover the uninvited and unknown within her own past. The journey allows Tara to unmask the characters of her personal play—her parents, her sisters, her son, and, eventually, herself...
VOICE ON TELEPHONE: (overheard by audience) This is Larry Summers...
SUMMERS: (overheard by audience) Sure is. You know, the power of the proletarian masses turned me towards the political light. I’ve been born again, I tell you. Once was lost but now I’m found, blind but now I see, yada yada yada. Made nice with Cornel West, joined the Green Party and whatnot. Listen, let’s give the janitors $11.35 an hour. Can I get an amen...
Rodriguez found the most egregious example of gratuitous opinionatedness at Café Pamplona, where he overheard the following: “Really, to say she capitulates to the patriarchy she critiques every time she posits the supplement is very uninteresting.” While this episode of mental masturbation is strong support for the thesis, FM decided to ask some of the most opinionated students on campus if they thought that 02138 really deserved this label...
...Christopher Cardinale's autobiographical piece about biking around downtown on that fateful morning has some remarkable details, like seeing tourists obliviously snapping pictures of each other in front of a sculpture. Unlike other such stories, he ends with an ominous note in the overheard comment of an ignoramus: "That's why we got G.W. in office! We're going to kick some Palestinian ass tonight!" Many of the other works express concerns about cycles of violence. With a simple, iconic style reminiscent of instruction manuals, Seth Tobacman's "Not Enough People Have Died," takes the logic of punishing everyone...