Big Love

BIG LOVE
by Charles L. Mee
Directed by Jiri Zizka
March 19 - EXTENDED THROUGH April 26, 2003

Critics are raving about the show...

"The setting is meant to be the courtyard of a large Italian villa, but the more important locations of this play and production are the imaginations of playwright Charles L. Mee and director Jiri Zizka. Mee deliberately designed Big Love to be a vehicle capable of carrying a colorful cargo of theatricality, and an inventive Zizka has loaded it full... The climactic scene of sex and violence is as astonishing a swirl of lurid activity as you'll see in theater... For visual spectacle and theatrical impressiveness, Big Love is hard to beat." said Doug Keating of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

An idyllic Italian villa. Suddenly, the golden summer evening is shattered by the arrival of fifty runaway brides, fleeing a mysterious arranged marriage. And a spectacular, unique piece of theater begins. A sensation at the famed Brooklyn Academy of Music, Big Love draws on almost every kind of theatrical performance to tell the story of some feisty women and the men who think they own them. Sizzling dialogue, vaudeville, slapstick, special effects, philosophical insights, violence, soaring poetry, pop songs, suspense, surrealistic dance -- all these and more paint a startling picture of the relations of men and women, and the nature of love, in our time. This is a transcendent theatrical journey full of joy, sadness, rage, humor and wisdom. No one who has seen it is ever likely to forget it.