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Irregular correspondent Jeff Dorchen's new play, "Strauss
at Midnight," is being performed by Theater
Oobleck Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM,
and Sundays at 3 PM at the Chicago DCA Theater, 66 East Randolph,
through July 11th.
TimeOut Chicago said 'Strauss' was, “savage, inventive
and very funny... Who could help loving a show in which Oscar
and Felix give voice to their long-repressed longings? Oobleck’s
characteristically assembled an impressive roster of fringe
talent.” Chicago's Center Stage called 'Strauss', “A
must-see show ... more than once."
Then, there's this
Tony Adler review of 'Strauss' from last Thursday's Chicago
Reader. The review was headlined, "Yom
Kippur in Hell: Jeff Dorchen atones for neoconservatism
in his new play for Oobleck":
- The universe - and I mean universe - of Jeff Dorchen's
dense, wild, painfully funny new intellectual farce, Strauss
at Midnight, is laid out like the medieval Norse one,
with an axis growing up through multiple worlds, each world
occupied by a different set of beings. But where the Norse
axis was a sacred ash tree called Yggdrasil, Dorchen's is
a poker table ...
The poker table here accommodates Niccolo Machiavelli; Virgil
Tibbs from In the Heat of the Night; Allan Bloom,
the U. of C. scholar whose The Closing of the American
Mind made him a darling of conservatives; and Leo Strauss,
another U. of C. don who was Bloom's mentor and is considered
by many to be the godfather of neoconservatism. Bloom has
devolved somewhat in death: he growls, walks on all fours,
and is led around on a leash by his affectionate master,
Strauss.
Enter Saul Bellow, Bloom's close friend and colleague at
the U. of C., who takes a look at hell's cold deli tray
and asks, "Are they going to replenish the pastrami?"
...
The unlikely hero of the piece, Bellow figures out that
it was Bloom and Strauss's malign worldview that landed
him in the land of insufficient cold cuts. How he manages
his redemption - and what it has to do with The Odd Couple
- makes for a weird, marvelous, and unexpectedly compassionate
spectacle.
Also a nasty and incredibly vulgar one ...
That it works so well is partly a function of Dorchen being
brilliant, and partly of his lucking out with what may be
the best cast I've ever seen in an Oobleck show.
Other Events include those with past guests Taki Pantos,
a memorial for past guest Franklin Rosemont, and stuff
to do with This is Hell! featured groups like Critical
Mass, In These Times and East Timor and Indonesia
Action Network.
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Podcasters! On our last podcast, Ira Chernus
returned to tell us why it's time to change the story on Israeli-Palestinian
violence; Bernard Avishai looked into 'The White House
and the Middle East'; Paul Rogers tallied 'the global
cost of war'; and Anthony DiMaggio described 'The Iranian
Elections and the Faith-Based Media.'
Irregular correspondent Dave Buchen returne
with a report live from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Jeff Dorchen
gave us a Moment of Truth.
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Feel free to peruse our vast vault of past Hell podcasts
by clicking on Archives.
The devolution will not be televised, but it will be podcast
every Saturday right after the show.
Producer Trevor Ewen's band, the Howlin' Tumbleweeds,
now has a web site at http://www.howlintumbleweeds.com.
Laura is also audio blogging at http://www.lauramayer.com.
'Radical Pessimist' Kevan Harris, one of This is Hell!'s
irregular correspondents, is blogging on his current 10-month
stay in Iran. You can read it at http://kevanharris.com
And another irregular correspondent Nicholas Hale,
who hosts the Fool Britannia segment, has a blog at http://foolbrit.blog.co.uk.
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