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Kimberly Akimbo

by David Lindsay-Abaire · 2003

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Winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Playwright, David Lindsay-Abaire's Kimberly-Akimbo focuses, with uncanny depth and quirky wit, on a sixteen-year-old girl suffering from a disease that causes her body to age nearly five times faster than it should.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
theatretheatreMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisNew JerseyNew JerseyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 120 pages
Form
playsplaysMore like thisLess of this

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