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"Labor Days" is a new play about three generations of Italian-Americans from the early '50's through the early '70's, in a small Pennsylvania town and in New York City. It explores how six members of the same family struggle with the fading of cherished traditions, the importance of blood loyalties versus emerging individual identities, how world politics severs generational ties, the contributions a creative, artistic mind can make in improving the living conditions of the poor, and the redeeming result of one person's quest for a moment of glory. This is not a story about guidos, Godfathers, mobsters with guns, girls with big hair or men with gold chains. It is a story about people who sat next to you in tenth-grade social studies, who wait on you at the diner, who will take out your kids' tonsils, who weatherproof your attic or who sleep next to you every night. It's about the person who, every morning, looks back at you in the mirror.