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Chicago celebrates the depth and breadth of Atlanta’s Poet Laureate with a first-ever citywide festival, featuring the centerpiece production The Nacirema Society, directed by Lili-Anne Brown at Goodman Theatre, plus concurrent readings, workshops and special events.
The title character of Jessica Dickey’s play is also the subject of Dava Sobel’s bestselling book of the same name. Sobel’s book about the great scientist’s brilliant, illegitimate cloistered daughter, Suor (Sister) Marie Celeste, seems to have inspired the play. The Writer tells us that Sobel’s work launched the quest that took her to Florence, Italy.
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If the playwright can let the character who so fascinated her take center stage, she’ll have something truly of note.
Spring is busting out all over and our critics pick 20 promising offerings on local stages.