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By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 9, 2008

As for the family at the center of the spectacle, the Wise family’s dynamics are a riot as the four of them evolve from their unthinking plastic harmony to a more difficult understanding of each other’s differences. Their conflicts make for hysterical dinner-table scenes, and also dramatizes the play’s implicit analogy: This must-see show likens the whole rancorous citizenry to a family, one that disagrees but that can nevertheless hold a conversation, and that can learn, for its own good, the art of compromise.

THE PRIMARY PRIMARY! by Robert John Ford | Directed by Blair Hundertmark | Produced by the New Hampshire Theatre Project, in Portsmouth NH | through January 20 | 603.431.6644

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