Monthly Archives: September 2021
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Teatro ZinZanni – Cambria Hotel
Teatro ZinZanni premiered in summer of 2019 at the Cambria Hotel on Randolph Street in Chicago’s Loop Theatre District. My fellow reviewer Colin Douglas saw the premiere and gave it a rave review. Having shut down during the pandemic, the show is back with some old and new cast members and I am happy to add my enthusiastic recommendation to the chorus. I can safely say that the show is unlike anything else you’re likely to see, and in Chicago theater, that’s saying something.
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Survival Through Storytelling
Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play – Theatre Wit
There are definite parallels between the stifling sixteen months of pandemic lockdown that we’ve just experienced, and a horrific, nation-wide nuclear catastrophe that almost brings the world to an end. It’s not clear yet whether this Covid virus will ever be fully controlled, what with the virus continually mutating into new forms, folks spouting conspiracy theories about its origin, and refusing to get vaccinated or even masking up. Hopefully these holdouts will soon see the light. But in this respect, Anne Washburn’s dystopian comic drama truly hits home. In the fictional world she’s created, entire cities have been wiped off the face of the earth. Those few hearty souls who’ve survived the nuclear holocaust are left with very little except their spotty but fond memories of pop culture. These recollections come from television commercials, popular music, and that most enduring of all TV shows, “The Simpsons.”
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