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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Aug 26, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'The title is more than a little misleading since it’s missing the point.<br />\nNot that there isn’t plenty of sex in the story but the arousal is really women being aroused to the new issues of the late 19th Century, especially jobs and suffrage.<br />\n';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = '<b>SERIOUS MONEY</b> Shaw Festival/Studio Theatre';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Aug 23, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'It’s always the dream of the theaters which stage new musicals or the playwright with a play, that something makes the show a “cash cow.”';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = '<b>THE TEMPEST</b> Statford Festival/Festival Theatre';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Aug 12, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Remember those strictures to: Keep your eye on the ball!<br />\nProspero, duke of Milan, didn’t do that, preferring to spend time reading and studying and leaving his brother Antonio running the city state.<br />\n';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = '<b>JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS</b> Stratford Festival/Tom Patterson Theatre';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Aug  4, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'It’s routine to read the program for <b>“Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris”</b> and see that the song-writer wrote his material in French.<br />\nOkay, after reading that you settle back and listen to all of the songs in English, songs like “Marathon,” “Sons of…” and “If We Only Have Love.”<br />\n';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = '<b>MACBETH</b> Shakespeare in Delaware Park';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Jul 29, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Nice try.<br />\nThat’s the best I can say for Shakespeare in Delaware Park’s production of <b>“Macbeth.”</b><br />\nNow, I know this production will always be known for having an all-female cast, although I don’t think that’s the problem.<br />\nIt just never quite takes off, at least on the night I saw it.<br />\n';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = '<b>HALF AN HOUR</b> Shaw  Festival/Royal George Theatre';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Jul 23, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Since theater is essentially an illusion, some of the best plays are about illusion.<br />\nCertainly, J.M. Barrie is best known for <b>“Peter Pan,”</b> with the stage version done several times at the Shaw Festival.<br />\n';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = '<b>JOHN BULL\'S OTHER ISLAND</b> Shaw Festival/Court House Theatre';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Jul 23, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Both my English and Irish relatives must have been angered by George Bernard Shaw’s <b>“John Bull’s Other Island,”</b> a century-old play which ridicules the people of both islands.<br />\nThe Irish are drunks, uneducated and controlled by their priests.<br />\nThe English are greedy, imperial and ignorant of their Irish subjects.<br />\n';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = '<b>THE DOCTOR\'S DILEMMA</b> Shaw Festival/Festival Theatre';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Jul 20, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = ' I know someone who was in a high position, able to change the way we all live until the doctor said: Get your estate planning done and soon.<br />\nToday, this person is still around and still doing good things.<br />\nSomeone put this individual into a really out-there treatment for terminal illness and it worked.<br />\n';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = '<b>ONE TOUCH OF VENUS</b> Royal George Theatre/Shaw Festival';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Jun 13, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = '<b>“One Touch of Venus”</b> is entertaining, well-done and risible.';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = '<b>THE WOMEN</b> Shaw Festival/Festival Theatre';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Jun 10, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Revenge is best when eaten cold.<br />\nRemember that?<br />\nMary Haines does.<br />\nShe was the happily married mom whose rich husband was running around on her and she didn’t know about it until her helpful friends made sure she knew.<br />\n';
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