Pamela teaches the history of Western civilization at an unnamed college and is up for tenure, while also planning the 80th birthday party of her irascible mother, Roberta. Her husband, Lawrence, teaches philosophy and is ready to go to war in the student paper with a campus group demanding that the canon be revisited in the interest of diversity and contemporary relevance. The arrival of their niece, Jennifer, sets off a series of events and epiphanies that upend what both Pamela and Lawrence have assumed about themselves and their relationship. Oh, and there’s this damn raccoon that keeps coming into the house.

That’s the story behind local playwright Amy Crider’s Buddha’s Birthday , now in a world premiere directed by Iris Sowlat for Crider’s Lucid Theater. At heart, it’s about one w

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