Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Christopher Durang

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Vanya and Sonia

and Masha and Spike

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’dentity Crisis

Titanic

The Actor’s Nightmare

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You

Beyond Therapy)

Betty’s Summer Vacation

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Vanya and Sonia

and Masha and Spike

Christopher Durang

Grove Press

New York

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Cover photo by Brigitte Lacombe for The New Yorker

Actors (from left to right): Kristine Nielsen, David Hyde Pierce, Sigourney Weaver, Billy Magnussen

Costume design by Emily Rebholz

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ISBN: 978-0-8021-2238-4

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