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"There was a time long ago, in prehistoric times
when cicadas were human beings
back before the Muses were born.
And then when the Muses were born
and song came into being
some of these human creatures were so taken by the pleasure of it
that they sang and sang and sang.
And they forgot to eat or drink
they just sang and sang
and so,
before they knew it,
they died."
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Charles Mee's plays have been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Lincoln Center, the Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, American Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group, La Mama, Here, the Cherry Lane, the New Ohio, and other places in the United States as well as in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Istanbul, Paris, Vienna, and elsewhere. He was honored with a full season of his plays at the Signature Theatre, and, among other awards, he is the recipient of two Obies, a Laura Pels Award, a Booth Award, the Richard B. Fisher Award, and the Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
