Man With Bags

Looking Glass Theater presents Man With Bags as part of The Ionesco Festival. Translated by Eugene Ionesco’s daughter Marie-France Ionesco and adapted by Israel Horowitz, this play is an all female version of a surreal journey. Julie Fei-Fan Balzer directs.

This rarely-produced play balances absurdism with the all-too-real fears of a lost dreamer struggling in a nightmare world of Keystone Kops, Kafka-esque bureaucrats and long lost family members who can?t decide whether they?re living or dead. In an ever-shifting landscape, all borders disappear between the past and the present, between children and the elderly, between the familiar and the strange, between the tragic and the comic.

The Looking Glass Theatre is dedicated to exploring and expanding a feminine aesthetic in the theatre. The company?s numerous all-female productions include last spring?s The Tempest, as well as Shakespeare?s Richard III, Cymbeline, and As You Like It. The company also presents works by women writers of the past, such as Rachel Crothers? A Man?s World and Anna Cora Mowatt?s Fashion, as well as by new works by female artists.