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| | PrideSource: Curtain Calls |
 | | Pound writes, families are "strangers who are thrown together for eternity," then dealing with family can lead both to great humor and great sorrow. |
 | | The story highlights events in the lives of three generations of the Belanger family, a look both at "Where have we come from?" and "How did we get here?" Our guide is young Oliver Belanger, aspiring stand-up comedian, who is dealing with the incapacitation of his maternal grandmother and best friend, Olivia. |
 | | If the "through line," to follow the production's clever reference to stand-up comedy, is relationships within the family, then the focus is sharpened by cutting out extraneous material, regardless of how good it is. And the script will be all the stronger for it. |
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