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Provincetown-- New York was on the phone, in a state. "We're putting on all these great plays in Provincetown this summer," actress and impresario Marjorie Conn complained, "and nobody's coming!" A jeremiad started to bloom in your corespondent's head on the decline of homosexual civilization. Could thespians of the Provincetown summertime be reduced to trawling Commercial Street with begging bowls? Provincetown-- where some 90 years ago a group of friends, Eugene O'Neill among them, founded the Provincetown Players, bringing American theater into its own? Until your correspondent's rant gets cut down to publishable size, for edification and amusement, check out the great plays running in the Provincetown Fringe Festival (www.ptownfringe.org). The offerings are too numerous to detail, but six productions are mainstays, happening every week on the same night all through the summer.

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Sundays it's Vagina Monologues.

Mondays it's two one-act plays: Alphabet of Flowers ("two 60-year-old women who meet for a long-planned reunion having been lovers in college many years before") and 1001 Tricks ("about what happens when Archer's boyfriend leaves him alone for only a moment on a park bench").

Tuesdays brings Well of Horniness, a "high-camp low-brow Sapphic murder mystery framed as a 1940s radio drama."

On Wednesdays, there are two one-acts first put on in Provincetown in summer 1916-- Eugene O'Neill's Bound East for Cardiff, a moving tale of the sailor's life; and Trifles, a murder mystery with a distinctly distaff weave, by Susan Glaspell.

Thursdays, it's Lorena Hickok & Eleanor Roosevelt: A Love Story, "herstory left out of the history books."

Saturdays it's Necessary Targets, in which "two American women visit a Bosnian refugee camp to 'help the victims.'"

All shows start at 7pm, cost $15, and are at The Provincetown Inn (1 Commercial Street). Tickets are available at www.capetix.com.