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Wallace Shawn is an Obie Award-winning playwright and a noted stage and screen actor. His plays The Designated Mourner and Marie and Bruce have recently been produced as films. He is co-author of the movie My Dinner with Andre and author of the plays The Fever, The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and Grasses of a Thousand Colours.

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Why I Call Myself a Socialist: Is the World Really a Stage?

Posted February 3, 2011 | 11:02:24 (EST)

Crossposted with TomDispatch.com.

In most reasonably large towns in the United States and Europe, you can find, on some important public square or street, a professional theater. And so, in various quiet neighborhoods in these towns, you can usually also find some rather quiet individuals, the actors who...

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Life As An Artist

Posted September 9, 2009 | 11:00:00 (EST)

Adapted from the Introduction to Wallace Shawn's new book Essays.

The human community is carved up into "individuals." Why? Presumably because it's helped us to survive, because a sleeping dog can easily be kicked, but it's hard to damage a large group of flies. I honestly don't know. At...

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