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When: Mondays, Thursdays-Saturdays. Continues through June 30 2012
Moody puppeteering and eerie video projections help reproduce the fever-dream aesthetic of an 1816 short story by German writer E.T.A Hoffmann. Haunted by the death of his father, a university student fixates on a gaunt figure (a convincingly ghoulish Dave Belden) whom he comes to associate with his dad's presumed murderer—and also with the eyeball-snatching bogeyman of the title. Max Truax's savvy staging comes close to turning the tiny Oracle Productions space into a psychological rabbit hole. Maybe a little too close, in fact: Hoffmann's dense narrative grows more and more obscure until it finally defeats itself, and Truax's staging never becomes the mind fuck it wants to be. —Dan Jakes
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Oracle Theatre
- 3809 N. Broadway St., Chicago Lakeview IL 60613
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773-244-2980
- oracletheatre.org
- (based on 10 user reviews)
