Article: Vive le paramus mall! (Front and Center).(The French Revolution: Part Deux)(Brief Article)

Because of wild tectonic activity, the city of Paris shoots up into the air and lands in...New Jersey! This is the premise of The French Revolution: Part Deux, now running at Rhode Island's Perishable Theatre. Emily Jane O'Dell wrote the play as an undergraduate at Brown University in a workshop with Paula Vogel during the much publicized turmoil over Elian Gonzalez. O'Dell asked herself: "What's a way to talk about this without talking about it directly?"

Knowing she wanted the story to be "exaggerated--a farce," O'Dell based her story (set in Upper Montclair, N.J., where the author was born and raised) on the premise of post-tectonic-movement mayhem. O'Dell ...

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