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http://www.aprilfitzsimmons.com

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What's an eager-to-please high school rebel going to do when her pops insists that she enlist in the Navy? Join the Air Force, natch, which is how April Fitzsimmons found herself in Italy fending off propositions from a mafia don, when not busy eavesdropping on Uzbekistan. The most effervescent former intelligence officer imaginable, Fitzsimmons became aware of the darker currents of news unfit to print in the tame pages of our civilian newspapers--a chilling informational gap that the then-teenager anesthetized by bottle as her security credentials gave her info on a need to know basis: intelligence that she never wanted to know in the first place. Now, a decade of unenlisted living later, Fitzsimmons is afloat in the same ocean of murky truth as the rest of us, only she's distressingly more aware of the nasty creatures lurking beneath the surface. Her perfectly constructed one-woman show is a masterwork of humor and dread, energetically directed by Steven Anderson. Though she's found her inner Marx (and inner peace via yoga), and though the dynamic ex-Commie basher wears her peace protester sentiments on her well-muscled biceps, she'd rather talk to the hawks than deliver a screed, as if on the information-sharing highway the rest stop after fear is understanding.