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Don’t miss Joan Ackermann’s ‘QUERTY’

In his letter to the editor, John Jones writes: “I advise all not to deprive your verbal senses and to get a ticket before the May 19th closing at Mixed Company.”

To the editor:

I write, not nearly as eloquently as our real-estate abutter Joan Ackermann, to bring attention to her most clever four-scene play, “QWERTY.”  The ten actors (including one who doesn’t speak) exceptionally fill their roles. As the title implies, each scenario involves a typewriter.

I advise all not to deprive your verbal senses and to get a ticket before the May 19th closing at Mixed Company.

John Lynn Jones

7 Elm Court

Great Barrington

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