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Article: Sarah and Abraham. (George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey)
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- Commonweal
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- April 10, 1992
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Plays by Marsha Norman and Edward Albee, not yet performed in New York, have recently bad premieres elsewhere along the Amtrak line--Norman's Sarah and Abraham at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, Albee's Marriage Play at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton. Marriage Play, a co-production with the Alley Theatre in Houston, directed by the author, is the American premiere of a work first performed at Vienna's English Theatre in 1987. It is a long, one-act play in which Jack's announcement that he is leaving Gillian--delivered three times after repeated entrances--is the trigger for a two-character conversation about a marriage that for thirty years has survived ...