Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012
The Women of Lockerbie
Helfaer Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
It is extremely difficult to wrap one's mind around the idea of losing a loved one to an act of terror. Playwright Deborah Brevoort attempts to express that pain in The Women of Lockerbie, a theatrical fusion of contemporary and ancient Greek tragedy. Marquette University Theatre does a pretty good job of staging Brevoort's imperfect script. As the play opens, we see freshman Michael Cienfuegos-Baca in the role of Bill Livingston. Bill and his wife, Madeline (Amy Burzak), lost their son in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. It is years after the tragedy, and they have come to Lockerbie, Scotland, looking for closure. So much of the setup lies in the exposition between the couple and a trio of Lockerbie women acting as a kind of Greek chorus. (Through Nov. 18)



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