Fri 9/29 @ 8PM
Cesear’s Forum, a small professional theater ensemble founded by artistic director Greg Cesear, is known for presenting work by experimental playwrights, past and present.
In its next offering A Fugitive’s Lesson, the group combines two plays from the early 1950s on one bill: French-Romanian playwright Eugene Ionesco’s The Lesson (1951) and Italian playwright Ugo Betti’s The Fugitive (1953). Both were key plays in the absurdist theater movement, which had its heyday in the decades following World War II. Its works were marked by repetitive, meandering, disconnected dialogue that addressed societal anomie in “plots” that lacked logical coherence and usually, any resolution. (The best known is Samuel Beckett’s 1953 Waiting for Godot.)
Cesear’s Forum performs at Kennedy’s in Playhouse Square. A Fugitive’s Lesson will run for five weeks, through October 28, on Fridays and Saturdays @ 8pm, with two Sunday matinees at 3pm on October 8 and 15. Go here for tickets.
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