At one point in Annie Baker’s 2009 play Circle Mirror Transformation , now being staged by Mighty Acorn Productions, the teacher of an adult acting class encourages her students to be “open and willing to go with it.” And that happens to be perfect advice for potential audiences as well.

But first, the set-up.

In small-town New England, it’s the first week of a six-week adult acting class at the local community center. The small class is led by a 51-year-old woman named Marty, the teacher quoted above, and the class includes Marty’s husband, James; Schultz, a recently divorced carpenter who still wears his wedding ring; Theresa, a former actress and transplant from New York attempting to cope with a recent breakup; and Lauren, a soon-to-be high school senior who wants the part of M

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