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This play is set at a gas station service station. While the manager, Chikasugi, and a part-time worker, Takarai, are having an incomprehensible conversation, a novelist, Nemori, comes to visit, accompanied by a nurse, Shimeno. Nemori tells Chikasugi that he and Chikasugi are half-brothers, and asks Chikasugi to sue the hospital over "rumors of medical mistakes" concerning his father, who is hospitalized in a vegetative state.
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JA

An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.

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