Five women stand in a line across the stage. The first four women are white, the woman on the far right is Black. The woman in the center is in black Grecian god-warrior garb. The second woman on the left is in contemporary clothes, sitting at her kitchen counter drinking wine. The other three are in flowing gowns and are positioned around the woman in the godlike clothing, looking at her with adoration and moving as if in a ritual dance.

Back in 2014, Theater Wit presented Madeleine George’s acerbic but aching comedy, Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, in which the denizens of a small New England college town wrestle with the dusty past, as represented by the display of the title creatures in the campus museum—which no one ever visits. George’s play wove in […]

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