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The Return To Mutton by James Naumburg Rosenberg. This sharp, darkly comic drama follows a veteran judge, John, and his wife Jane as their ten-year marriage slides from routine toward longing. Set in a cluttered apartment and later in a shabby Venetian studio, it probes how conventional domestic life bends under art, appetite, and bohemian passion. Act I plays out their brittle balance: John's idle wit about mutton and mush, Jane's unease, and the arrival of Augustin, a starving artist who may derail their marriage. Jane contemplates leaving with him, but John counters with a sly nostalgia for shared rituals—the stamps, the jokes, the small mercies—that keep them bound. Ten months later Venice shows a revitalized John returning to the scene; a tentative reconciliation unfolds as Jane and he imagine a fresh life together, while Augustin recedes. The work remains a pointed meditation on desire, compromise, and the costs of passion.
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