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face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#333333>A play within a play – that literary
device where a story being told by a character closely parallels the life of
that character – is nearly as old as literature itself.<SPAN
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#333333>It’s been used by Shakespeare in
“Hamlet,” by Chekhov in “The Seagull,” by Brecht in “The Caucasian Chalk Circle”
and by local playwright Mike Geither in a new work called “Tear It Off,” which
is getting its world premiere production by
convergence-continuum.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#333333>In “Hamlet,” the play being performed by a troupe
of</FONT></SPAN><FONT color=#252525><SPAN class=apple-converted-space><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ">strolling
actors </SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>mirrors
the murder of Hamlet’ father, which the Bard uses to provoke Hamlet’s murderous
uncle so as to “catch the conscience of the king." <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Geither has less lofty goals in
mind.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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color=#252525 face="Times New Roman">He’s going for laughs.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Big ones.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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