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The play was presented by the Center
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spanning the years between 1936 and 1976. Charlie yearns to establish - at the very least - a peaceful co-existence with his angry, remote, and verbally and emotionally abusive father, who has spent forty years in
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The play focuses on Eddie Ross (born
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Gardner",
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