Retro ‘Dining Room’ ready to revel in artifice and repression
If you’ve experienced large family meals, you will probably recognize in “The Dining Room,” this year’s Dramat freshman production, something of the subtle mental torment that those meals entailed. You will also find yourself better able to tolerate a play that, at times, approaches the painful quality of family conversation.

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