Directed by Ensemble Member Steven Fedoruk
July 16 - Aug 23, 2015The Athenaeum Theatre2936 N. Southport Ave. Chicago IL Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 7:30 pm; Sunday at 2:00 pm |
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The 2015 McNally season continues with his Pulitzer nominated play, A Perfect Ganesh. On their journey for inner peace, two middle-aged women travel to India instead of to their more usual Caribbean vacation spots. They have chosen India as a way of healing from the deaths of their sons. While there, they meet a Hindu god, Ganesha, meaning "wisdom." Faced with the women's despair, who but the golden elephant god could intervene? Fluid in his power to assume any guise, at peace with all things, Ganesha is the spiritual center around which the play spins itself, drawing upon the tragic and the comic, the beautiful and the deplorable, until a breathtaking release arrives for both women at his hands. Ensemble member Steven Fedoruk directs.