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Anne Bogart’s ‘Café Variations’ is a love letter to Charles Mee

By Laura Collins-Hughes

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 13, 2012

Anne Bogart is a little bit nervous about “Café Variations,” her remix of the work of Charles L. Mee Jr., the sole playwright member of her SITI Company. In Mee’s plays, lyricism and brutality tend to live side by side, and the director knows she is taking a leap by leaving the violence out. But she also knows that this piece is a different kind of animal, with a different purpose. “This, for me, is a love letter to Chuck,” Bogart said. “He doesn’t know it.”

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