Big Love

by Charles Mee

 

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Sally Stevens Players Theatre - Stevens Building

Fifty brides flee their fifty grooms and seek refuge in a villa on the coast of Italy in this modern re-making of one of the western world's oldest plays, The Danaids by Aeschylus. And, in this villa on the Italian coast, the fifty grooms catch up with the brides, and mayhem ensues: the grooms arriving by helicopter in their flight suits, women throwing themselves over and over again to the ground, pop songs and romantic dances, and, finally, unable to escape their forced marriages, 49 of the brides murder 49 of the grooms-and one bride falls in..." (charlesmee.org)

Performances
Friday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 16, 2:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 20, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 21, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 22, 2:00 p.m.

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Content suitable for ages 18+