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Director’s note: I love this play for its playfulness, magic and depth. It landed on the Top Ten lists of The New York Times and
The New Yorker for 2009. The New York Times said: “Circle Mirror Transformation is the kind of unheralded gem that sends people into
the streets babbling and bright-eyed with the desire to spread the word. The play traces the lives of a handful of small-town
Vermont residents who gather each week for an acting class taught at the local community center. By the play's end we seem
to see to the very bottom of these souls, and feel how the artificial intimacy of the acting class has shaped their
lives in substantial ways.” And the reviewer in Backstage hit the nail on the head: "Smartly, sneakily, Baker gives us the rare
theatercentric play that's not self-obsessed. [Circle Mirror Transformation] is about real people exploring their lives through
tiny leaps of faith and creativity."
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