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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20020319
Author:Solomon, Alisa

Coney Island, Hiroshima, and a Little Sontag

THE BOMB

By Josh Fox and the International WOW Company Clemente Soto Velez

212-866-4551

RED FROGS

By Ruth Margraff P.S. 122

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THE FRONT PAGE FOLLIES By Ekstrom and Quinn Cornelia Street Cafe 212-340-9468

Certainly he was the first. But maybe Aristophanes was also the last playwright to produce an uproarious comedy calling for peace in the middle of a popular war. I wouldn't have thought to mull about The Frogs these days if publicity for Ruth Margraff s Red Frogs hadn't invoked it as her inspiration. Though her play's connection ...

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