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Lynn Nottage’s FABULATION  OR, THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE Fables and fairy tales are supposed to end happily when the poor little girl  meets a handsome  prince who whirls her away to a magic kingdom etc. Fabulation tells that story backwards.   Felicia Curry is Undine, the princess at the top of her own public relation firms in Manhattan…She has it all!… until   one by one, the threads of this life start to unravel.   Her   husband has spent all her money and is wanted by the FBI.   Bankrupt and pregnant, she goes back to the only place left where she started with her family in Brooklyn. At a fast clip,   a fine cast of actors   appear and re-appear, in different roles.  Aakhu TuahNera Freeman is her doped up wheel chaired Grandma as well an inmate Undine shares a jail cell with after she is arrested for trying to buy Grandma some drugs on the street corner. Roz White is her mother and also some of her girl friends.   William T. Newman, Jr is her father who keeps h