Lion in the Streets
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 8, 2005
Closed Sep 25, 2005

Playing at
Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

By turns shattering, desperately funny, uplifting and provocative, the play follows the ghost of a murdered seven-year-old girl as she returns to the community where she lived in hopes of discovering her killer. Peering into the lives of her friends and neighbors, she discovers the various secrets hidden within their middle class lives. By delving into a variety of contemporary social issues--the struggle of low-income families, the plight of the disabled and the difficulty of coming to terms with homosexuality--the play mirrors the daily challenges we face in our own neighborhoods, while ultimately inspiring the redemptive power of hope and forgiveness in our lives.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex
312 W 36th St
New York, NY 10018

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Acclaimed Canadian playwright Judith Thompson does not shy away from gruesome subjects. Her last play, which recently visited the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, was a mordant satire of Abu Ghraib called My Pyramids! However, she retains her penchant for the macabre even when examining rural life, as is evident in her award-winning Lion in the Streets, currently being revived by the Alternative Theatre. Underneath the placid veneer of her home and native land, Thompson grapples with issues of class and racial strife, sexual discrimination, molestation, and murder.

The play, through a series of vignettes, explores the burden of memory and the power of forgiveness. A young Portuguese girl[...]

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Reviewed by Adam Klasfeld on Sep 9, 2005