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Make no ‘Mistakes,’ this is beyond rich

Published Friday, November 3, 2006

“I have this little life, and I don’t know what to do with it,” says the jaded heroine toward the end of Elizabeth Meriwether’s dark but sprightly play, “The Mistakes Madeline Made.” There’s guilt in her confession: how dare I feel unhappy when my unhappiness seems so gosh-darn trivial? It’s a juicy question, and Meriwether’s play poses it well.

This jaded Edna (Aubrey Dollar) is one of fifteen poor souls employed by a rich-beyond-rich family to make sure it can go about its day without dealing with, well, anything. Under the supervision of the cloyingly peppy taskmistress Beth...

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