The Misunderstanding

The Misunderstanding

Lacuna Artist Loft Studios
2150 South Canalport Chicago

The final part in Theatre Y's The Exiled Trilogy, The Misunderstanding by Albert Camus approaches the responsibility of the exile from the heart of one of our history's most appalling scenes, The Second World War. Camus's text, written and first performed in Vichy France in 1944, draws a stark outline of WWII Europe from within its own walls. Here the grey years have driven a mother and daughter to rob and murder the guests at their boarding house in order to sustain their dreams of escape. When their long lost son/brother returns to the land of his childhood after twenty years abroad and decides to rent a room, a fatal misunderstanding turns the prodigal son into the fatted calf.

Presented by Theatre Y

Thru - Aug 27, 2011