Massacre (Sing to Your Children)

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Jose Rivera's surprisingly mundane play,
Massacre (Sing to Your Children), now at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, doesn't waste any time getting to the violent events of its title.

In this magical realist allegory, the lights come up on the gritty interior of a slaughterhouse, where seven screaming, grotesquely masked figures barge in, to a thrash metal soundtrack, after rising up and brutally attacking a fearsome Satanic figure outside.

Given some of Rivera's past work, one might expect this to be a rebellion with at least some heroes in it. As it turns out, the seven warriors in Massacre reveal themselves to be decidedly non-heroic and, worse yet, disappointingly clichéd.

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