In the before times, however, in the years before her acting makes her money, she will act in a play where a mother leaves her daughters. Tanya Maw was always an acting extremist. She believed, fundamentally, that an actor need not experience a tragedy in order to act it, but then there she will be onstage, acting as her winter-disappeared mother, acting as a woman who has chosen to leave her daughters, and Tanya will know that she is not acting, but channeling something much, much stranger. In this play, Tanya will not just fit her face into the faces of others, she will fit her face into the
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