Theater
Big Love: Talk about big fat Greek weddings. In Charles L. Mee’s scintillating comedy “Big Love,” 50 modern-day Greek brides are slated for family-arranged mass matrimony with 50 of their American cousins. But the young women rebel and flee to an Italian seaside villa, where they ask for sanctuary. Mee transforms the musty source material -- Aeschylus’ “The Suppliant Women” -- into wildly funny reflections on love, men, women and contemporary society that are strewn throughout a woolly narrative that features music, dance, mass murder and redemption.
-- Don Shirley
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Dec. 13, 2002 For The Record
Los Angeles Times Friday December 13, 2002 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 5 inches; 213 words Type of Material: Correction
“Big Love” -- The production of “Big Love,” Charles L. Mee’s modern-day update of Aeschylus’ “The Suppliant Women,” has been extended to run through Feb. 2 at the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice. It is incorrectly listed as closing on Jan. 2 in Thursday’s Calendar Weekend section and in Sunday Calendar’s listings guide.
Ends Sunday at the Pacific Resident Theatre, 703-707 Venice Blvd., Venice. (310) 822-8392.
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