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Philly-based playwright Martha Kemper’s memoir-based LUCKIEST KID is an achievement just this side of brilliant. Playing the protagonist and main speaker in a story of a high-school girl who sleeps with her idolized drama teacher, Kemper balances this heady, personal emotionality by exploring the joy and relief brought by the brief affair, keeping the play from becoming unpleasant. Using Greek structures and themes to explore crime and culpability, she effectively contrasts our immediate judgments against the high school teacher with feeling portrayals of the human genius and weakness present in the character. more…
