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Let’s just.
I’m not going anywhere.
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What does that sign say?!
Keep off the grass!
And where are you standing?
The grass.
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JAMES FRITZ
James Fritz’s other plays include Parliament Square (winner of the Judges’ Award at the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting; Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester/Bush Theatre, London); The Fall (National Youth Theatre at Finborough Theatre); Ross & Rachel (MOTOR at Assembly George Square, Edinburgh Festival Fringe/59E59 Theaters, New York); Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (runner-up of Soho Theatre’s 2013 Verity Bargate Award, nominated for an Olivier Award; Hampstead Theatre Downstairs) and Lines (Rosemary Branch Theatre).
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