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The sly, outrageous humor of Mr. Appel will keep the mind percolating,the belly jiggling and the throat giggling. Causa Mortis is about an inept Medical Student who botches up hospital records, a stubborn patient with a Swiss watch in her head and two daughters trying to get her ticking properly. Add in a fellow patient who has no memory and a brain surgeon who is afraid of dying while operating and you have the ingredients for a satirical romp.

It seems that when Eleanor was young a watch was left in her head by a Swiss doctor when he removed a benign tumor. After many years mental complications begin to show up and she is scheduled twice to have the watch removed. When two brain surgeons drop dead as they prepare to operate further complications occur, –– and, this is just the beginning of a hospital frolick.

Pearl Cleage is probably best remembered in the Detroit area for her play Blues For An Alabama Sky. Her play A Song For Coretta opened in Atlanta in 2007. The Atlanta Journal –– Consitution said the play “... brims with wit, personality and life-affirming energy.”

The five fictional characters in her play are standing in the rain at the end of long line of mourners that have come to pay tribute to Coretta Scott King, the deceased widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. What ensues is a generational clash invoked by the common need to embrace Mrs. King’s extraordinary life and find a bridge to the soul of the civil rights icon. As the mourners hold her in their memories, so the play enters ours.

Jeffrey Jackson’s quixotic play Two Point Oh places us firmly on a tenuous fence between reality and virtual reality. We are party to a deep and profound love steeped in the real world which suddenly finds devotion straddling a precipice to a cyber one. Simultaneously we are moved and frightened. Our mind begins to play tricks. What’s true? What’s real? What’s virtual? What’s manufactured? What’s us? What does the “Oh” in the title of the play signify?

When a world renowned CEO and computer genius tries to create a cyber copy of human feelings and intelligence, love and life in the human world is pushed to the brink...of what? What happens when the mortal world is challenged by a nonreligious immortal one?

Mr. Kalinoski has done it again. Two seasons ago the Repertory premiered his award winning play, Between Men and Cattle, about a young boy who grew up to be the first African American President of a predominantly white University. Now he returns to us with, My Soldiers, a brilliant portrait of a young woman, adrift, trying to find a meaningful path to her life ahead.

Angi joins the National Guard. She becomes a medic. Her unit gets shipped to Iraq. It is there that life strikes back at her. When life strikes back it is often unkind and in her case life and death hit her very hard. The meaning for anything and everything badly jumbles her sensitivities. Strong personal and military language fails to cover her post traumatic war distress.