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Mad Joy
Nov. 24 - Jan. 5
Fri. 7 pm
Sat. 2 pm


 

 Mad Joy Video from 1996 productions  




Mecca is aging in reverse. Her memory is backwards too. Mecca awakens as an 85 year-old
woman with a full "memory" of what the life ahead of her will be as she gets younger.
As soon as Mecca has lived an experience, she can no longer recall anything about it.
She does not know who she has been, only who she is becoming.




 
"Take the absurd spirit of Eastern European literature from Kafka to Kundera. Spin it together with the funky,
sometimes dissonant marching music of a New Orleans funeral. And you may just get a hint of what awaits you in
Free Street's haunting, hugely imaginative production, "Mad Joy" - Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
  
 
Free Street Theater        1419 W. Blackhawk     Chicago, IL 60622     (773) 772-7248       gogogo@freestreet.org