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Trying [play]

Play by Canadian playwright Joanna McClelland Glass.

"A surprising yet touching play about a profound friendship between two strangers - at dramatically different points in their lives - who unexpectedly find they have more in common than they thought.

Internationally famous, cantankerous and in failing health, the 81 year old Judge Francis Biddle awaits the new secretary that his wife has forced upon him. Sarah is very young and inexperienced and, even worse, from Canada. Francis doesn't trust her. Francis doesn't trust anyone - his last assistant managed to burn half his books. Despite undergoing her own marital pressures and impending motherhood, Sarah is determined to get the Judge's life in order - without crying in the bathroom."

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