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2011: The year in theater

Stories and characters worked best on a small scale

By Don Aucoin

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 25, 2011

As 2011 draws to a close, productions put on by small or fringe theater companies in Boston, on the Cape, and in the Berkshires occupy a secure place among the year’s most memorable events. The plays unfolding in these snug venues were often challenging, even daring, while the casts - whose collective salaries probably wouldn’t match Bono’s annual budget for sunglasses - invariably threw themselves into their performances as if the fate of the American theater depended on it.

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