Stars in the Morning Sky

UIC Theatre
1040 W. Harrison St Chicago

This retelling of Maxim Gorky's "The Lower Depths" has been adapted by Peter Christensen and Yasen Peyankov, head of UIC's acting program. It begins on the eve of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, when police herd prostitutes to the city's ramshackle outskirts. Four of them are left in a dilapidated barracks that once served as a mental hospital. Under the control of a jailer, her police-officer son and a brutal fifth prostitute, they tell their stories of family betrayals and class divisions in a communist society.