THURSDAY
Madame Lynch
Now through June 15 at New Ohio Theater, 8 pm (select shows at 4 pm and 7 pm): $25 http://newohiotheatre.org/madamelynch.htm
Theater artists Normandy Sherwood and Craig Flanigin, who together run the company The Drunkard’s Wife, are always up to something colorful. They specialize in the zany, the musical, the site-specific, the historically-inspired. Their latest creation, Madame Lynch, is sure to be no different. It centers around the self-proclaimed “Empress of Paraguay” Eliza Lynch, a woman who is not in fact from Paraguay but from Ireland. To help tell this tale of imperialism, they’ve enlisted the Paraguayan “folkloric dance group” Ballet Panambà Vera as choreographic collaborators.
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