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Adverses at Aguijon Theater

Adverses

Aguijon Theater
2707 North Laramie Avenue Chicago

A mother who keeps an iron grip on power, and a daughter bent on avenging her father's murder. As the contemporary retelling of the Electra myth, Adverses highlights the corrosive nature of power and the complicated relationship between mother and daughter. Playwright Rey Andújar has won multiple awards for his writing including The International Award from Casa de Teatro. Performed in Spanish with English supertitles, you can see the mythic tale come to life at Chicago's Aguijón Theater.

Thru - Jun 19, 2016

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 6:00pm

Price: $15-$25

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 773-637-5899

www.aguijontheater.org

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Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...This time queen Clitemnestra is a power-hungry, pseudo-feminist nymphomaniac, while princess Electra is a wannabe Marxist revolutionary. Andújar's stage world is impishly nonsensical (murdered King Agamemnon's coffin has air holes cut in it), yet the malignant passions that consume everyone-jealousy, ambition, lust, revenge-are unsettlingly true to life. He combines Lorca's erotic lyricism with Brecht's politically engaged cynicism to create something urgent, idiosyncratic, and wholly contemporary. Directors Sandor Menendez and Oswaldo Calderón stage the tragedy with perfect authority, assisted by a nimble, exacting cast who exploit every pulse in Andújarj's intoxicating rhythms. It's masterful."

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- Justin Hayford

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