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The Crowd You're in With is trapped in 2007, both dramatically and politically

by Dan Jakes

Why do people always turn into sneering jackasses during dinner parties in plays? A group of politically engaged Chicago north siders gets together for a casual Fourth of July barbeque in Rebecca Gilman's 2007-set slice-of-life backyard debate drama. In the tradition of most dinner parties in plays, otherwise-civilized adults devolve over glasses of sangria and bottles of Oberon into snee…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 7:00am on May 22, 2019