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Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks hands out his own awards for the most (and least) ovation-worthy moments in Washington's 2007-08 theater season.
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"Shintoku-Maru"
(Kennedy Center)
For reasons that could perhaps be decoded only by a U.N. interpreter, this dialogue-heavy piece in Japanese was presented in the Opera House -- without English translation.
Best new play
"The Brothers Size"
(Studio Theatre)
A buoyantly talented young wordsmith such as Tarell Alvin McCraney, author of this powerful drama of struggling young men
in the Deep South, has to be wooed,
nurtured, supported and otherwise encouraged by the theater, before the moneyed entities of richer forms of entertainment try to take him away.
Best new play made
from old story
"Current Nobody"
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