Article: 'Maria/Stuart': Another Dip in The Old Gene Pool

So here we are, yet again and once more, nestled in the bosom of American theater's favorite punching bag, the nutty family. You know, foul old granny is spewing her trademark venom, mom's hitting the sauce pretty hard and junior's got the hots for a girl who paddles too close to his own gene pool.

The national debt might be going nuclear and the ozone layer calling it quits, but on the nation's stages, we can't seem to curb our solipsistic enthusiasm for the skeletons in our relatives' closets. The latest evidence comes courtesy of Woolly Mammoth Theatre, where Jason Grote's hyperventilating comedy, "Maria/ Stuart," is receiving its world premiere.

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