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 "A Selection" takes us into even darker territory: the Holocaust. The title refers to "Selekcja," the process by which inmates in the concentration camps were routinely weeded out when they were determined unfit to live.
-     On Sendak's painted set, which depicts a city where a fire is constantly spreading, a troupe of characters misses the last train to safety. Some of them wear on their garments a yellow star -- the symbol the Third Reich used to publicly brand Jews.
+On Sendak's painted set, which depicts a city where a fire is constantly spreading, a troupe of characters misses the last train to safety. Some of them wear on their garments a yellow star -- the symbol the Third Reich used to publicly brand Jews.
 Their number is infiltrated by an enigmatic, misshapen figure in a black overcoat (Otis Cook) who decloaks to reveal the sinuous form of a man in a uniform worn by concentration camp prisoners. This trickster figure, though, is robust, hale, hearty -- and apparently double-jointed. He sidles, insinuates and clings to individual troupe members, one at a time, meeting, facilitating and ultimately judging.
-     The relationships between troupe members is never fully clarified, and this ambiguity does not always serve the work. But ultimately, Matt Kent's figure takes on Hitlerian aspects as a leader others hide from (like Josie Coyoc) or cannot tear themselves away from (Rebecca Anderson).
+The relationships between troupe members is never fully clarified, and this ambiguity does not always serve the work. But ultimately, Matt Kent's figure takes on Hitlerian aspects as a leader others hide from (like Josie Coyoc) or cannot tear themselves away from (Rebecca Anderson).
-     Death dances with each, with all -- the lovers, the jaded, even the one who mistakenly considers himself death's employer. He selects, at the last, and when he selects he takes all. A dark end concludes this disturbing and sometimes unclear work, whose subject matter and presence of male and female nudity make it anything but a children's story.
+Death dances with each, with all -- the lovers, the jaded, even the one who mistakenly considers himself death's employer. He selects, at the last, and when he selects he takes all. A dark end concludes this disturbing and sometimes unclear work, whose subject matter and presence of male and female nudity make it anything but a children's story.