The Chicago Reader has chosen No Darkness Round My Stone to be on its shortlist, the most highly recommended shows. Here is the review which will appear in Thursdays paper:
No Darkness Round My Stone
When: Through 10/11: Thu-Sat 8 PM
Phone: 773-384-0494
Price: $20, two for one Thu
Set in and around a graveyard, French playwright Fabrice Melquiot's hallucinatory play isn't for the timid--or for those who need a linear storyline. Melquiot gives us six fascinating characters, five of whom are corpses at the start of the evening, and sets them loose in a series of hallucinatory scenes--some quite witty, some terrifying and violent--that offer intriguing echoes of Beckett, Wedekind, Fassbinder, Albee, and Poe, but don't quite add up. Max Truax's inspired, eccentric direction leaves as many unanswered questions as Melquiot's highly fragmented text (translated here by David Bradby). But an intense and energetic ensemble keeps our attention. Highly Recommended. --Jack Helbig
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