Word: checkbox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last play, The Heeding. is Checkbox's burlesque of the marriage ceremony. Everyone gets drunk and throws around food. Anything at all sensible is shouted down by the guests, and the play comes close to pathos at the end. A "general" who nobody knows has been brought to the party because the bride "always wanted a general." The "general" is just an old retired navy man who starts screaming orders and blowing his whistle. The guests finally shut him up and hustle him out, and he goes off muttering "A shoddy way to treat an old man." Chekhov's comments...
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