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Participants will read scenes aloud, explore characters, motivations, and tactics, play with different interpretations and directions, and then enter a broader conversation about how the content resonates with us, what it says about the time period in which it was written, and how plays both reflect and shape ideas and culture. This first Coffee Talk will focus on Wendy Wasserstein\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Heidi Chronicles\u00a0<\/em>(Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award) and\u00a0<em>The Sisters Rosensweig<\/em>. <strong>And yes \u2013 there will be coffee and cake each week!<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hester Kamin<\/strong>\u00a0is the Education Programs Manager at Theater J. She\u2019s a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Ecole Jacques Lecoq, and the Fred Rogers Institute and has served as Director of Education of six theaters around the US and as Co-Artistic Director of touring Drama Ties Theatre in Paris. 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