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We can’t imagine anything more appropriate to do in an election year than watch a play about red tape, greed, hypocrisy, incompetent middle managers and military researchers. They’re the central parts of “Food Chain,” based on T.C. Boyle’s “Top of the Food Chain” and Gert Hoffman’s “Our Man is Madras,” at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Tinfish Community Center, 4247 N. Lincoln Ave. Free. 773-784-8100.