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How Annie Baker’s Disturbing Genius Is Shaking Up Theater

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In The Flick and now John, the Pulitzer-winning playwright creates funny, sad, unsettling, and extraordinary plays out of seemingly ordinary people’s lives.

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Who is the John of the title of Annie Baker’s latest play at the off-Broadway Signature Theatre?

He’s absent, for sure, during the play, but his presence is keenly felt by the young couple at its center, played by Christopher Abbott and Hong Chau.

They have gone away for a few days,...

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