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    <body><![CDATA[Three excellent and well-crafted plays, epic in scope, horrific in aesthetic, oddly romantic and redemptive. Uniquely drawn gay and female characters, defying cliche and giving the actor much to work with. A definite read for any theater folks looking for unusual plays with which to break the local ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73906942">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[READ THIS, YOU IDIOT! To myself.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not giving a star rating because I picked it up solely for the &quot;The History of the Devil&quot; on recommendation of someone who'd listened to a radio play version of it...but I couldn't get into it. I barely read a dozen pages before being just bored. Did absolutely nothing for me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Clive Barker's plays are as darkly inspiring ashis novels. A must for anyone whose interests run to macabre or avante garde theater.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Back away from the performance media. I'm serious, Clive.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Some really dark stories from a horror dude.]]></body>
    
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