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Product Description his collection contains three full-length plays: THE GAME OF LIGHT, KRISIT, & RAIN. SOME FISH. NO ELEPHANTS. Review There s not a lot of fat to trim in KRISIT, a satire on Hollywood... Skewering the greed, vanity and bloated egos of Hollywood types is an easy target that has been done more times than Krisit s crow s-feet. But York s script has plenty of clever quips. --Robert Dominguez, Daily NewsIn Y York s futuristic comedy RAIN. SOME FISH. NO ELEPHANTS., genetic engineering has produced a submissive nation of clones and drones. Everything is gene coded so all individuality can be obliterated, except for one stubbornly old-fashioned family trying to thaw the perpetual nuclear winter. That winter is actually an endless floodlike rainy season. The play...begins as a kind of science-fiction variation on YOU CAN T TAKE IT WITH YOU with a wildly eccentric family resolutely staying out of the mainstream. In this case, the father is a crank who has quit his scientific post in a dehumanizing laboratory to go fishing. He neglects his suicidal wife and their two very odd daughters. The catalyst for renewal is a black man, cloned to be a member of a faceless servant class. Removed from his diet of stoppers, pills that deny incentive, he becomes a rebel. As conceived by York...he is an engaging figure, awakening to his personality as well as to his racial identity....[Y York] has created a thought provoking comic parable about mankind s indominability. As much as anything, the play is concerned with the survival of history itself. --Mel Gussow, The New York TimesIn Y York s futuristic comedy RAIN. SOME FISH. NO ELEPHANTS., genetic engineering has produced a submissive nation of clones and drones. Everything is gene coded so all individuality can be obliterated, except for one stubbornly old-fashioned family trying to thaw the perpetual nuclear winter. That winter is actually an endless floodlike rainy season. The play...begins as a kind of