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Stage Review

In 'Self-Defense,' the oddest of couples

Adam Garcia (left) and Chelsea Cipolla in the Gurnet Theatre Project's 'Essential Self-Defense' at the BCA. Adam Garcia (left) and Chelsea Cipolla in the Gurnet Theatre Project's "Essential Self-Defense" at the BCA. (Chris Fournier)
By Sandy MacDonald
Globe Correspondent / June 18, 2008

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We've all seen good women take on impossible men. In Adam Rapp's "Essential Self-Defense," enjoying a lively Boston premiere by Gurnet Theatre Project, Sadie Day, an effusively sweet children's book editor, doesn't even seem to find anything off about Yul Carroll, a hulking misfit who gives every sign of being an incipient Ted Kaczynski. (Full article: 507 words)

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