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The Harsh Reality of Playing Pretend

Lydia Riess's "Rocks and Geodes"

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Dorrit Corwin
Jul 31, 2025
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I was incredibly honored when my friend Lydia Riess offered to comp a ticket to her new play in exchange for me writing about it on my Substack. Writers supporting writers—a dream!

I’ve known Lydia since early on in college, when we co-led a team of passionate yet often recalcitrant fellow students in a chaotic exercise that entailed sifting through 50+ …

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