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Aug 2022
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Meet Cute presents: A Mid-Semester Night’s Dream. Starring Charithra Chandran. In a playful retelling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, four graduate students’ love lives–and scholarly ambitions–are thrown into chaos after a mischievous TA uses an enchanted book to make them all fall in love with each other. Follow @MeetCute on Instagram and @Mee ... Show More
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A Mid-Semester Night’s Dream: Starring Charithra Chandran - Part 1
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