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From Gimlet, this is RepiAll, I'm PJ Boat, and I'm Alex Goldman.

So, a couple of years ago, a friend was visiting from out of town and she took me to see this

play. It was called Perfect Crime. All she really knew about it was that it was a crime

thriller. So, we went to this off Broadway theater where the stage was set up like an office

in an old detective story. Big wood bookshelves, an old Persian rug. We sit down and the

play begins. This is a recording in the first scene. A man is sitting in the office listening

to a real to real recorder. And then this woman barges onto the stage. She's wearing a wig,

but you can't tell if you're supposed to know that it's a wig or not. And you don't

really have that much time to wonder because she immediately pulls out a gun and shoots

the guy. And so begins the most bewildering couple hours of theater I've ever seen in

my life. The play has the rhythms of a detective story. People are finding stuff out, and clues

are revealed, and accusations are made. But sitting there watching it, I could not follow

anything. Which meant that I didn't know if the play was over my head or really just

bad. So PJ made me go see this play. He actually made me go see it with our producer,

Fia Benin. And it is pretty much as bizarre as he describes it. I kept leaning over to

her and going like, do you understand what's going on? And she would lean back and say,

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