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    Staff Picks: Bas, Beauvoir, and Britain

    by The Paris Review Dec 13, 2019 5 minutes

    Damon Daunno as Curly and Mary Testa as Aunt Eller in Oklahoma! © Little Fang.

    My junior year of high school, I was not asked to the prom. Bear in mind that my high school had 4,500 students and that although 2,250 of them were eligible to attend this dance, not a single person deigned to be my date. I went, instead, to see A lovely time, to be sure, but boring as all get-out. While my peers enjoyed a disastrous evening of sex, drugs, and revelry, I watched that bland production from a blurry distance. At Daniel Fish’s last weekend, I found these two evenings had merged into a marvelous party, to which I had finally, belatedly been invited. Twitter chatter informed me this was “Sexy ,” and while it certainly sexy, it’s also so delightful I beamed through much of the first act. It’s funny

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