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"Any words spoken by hedgehogs in this play are in translation.\xa0Please note that all translations are betrayals..." \xa0 Emmy winner Carol Kane (The Princess Bride, Hester Street,\xa0"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt") and Tony nominee Jeremy Shamos ("Better Call Saul,"\xa0Clybourne Park)\xa0star in Lily Akerman's\xa0Hedgehog Years,\xa0the second place winner of Playing on Air's 2018 James Stevenson Prize. When he was five, Theo (Shamos) met his best friend: an excitable hedgehog (Kane) who loves leftovers and longs to go to summer camp. Now, sifting through his memories, Theo must try to make sense of the days when he ran away from home and started living like an animal. Mischievous and heartbreaking,\xa0Hedgehog Years\xa0is\xa0an adventure for anyone who's ever ached to return to childhood. After the play, Tony winner and director Judith Ivey joins the cast, Akerman, and host Claudia Catania to discuss imagination and animal instincts.\xa0