Theater

“Pera Palas”: In the last hundred years, Turkey has traveled further along the convulsive path from a static, autocratic ancient society to a modern republic than any other country in the Islamic world. The heavy price of transformation its people paid is eloquently illuminated in Sinan Unel’s drama. The double-cast production features 10 actors in 27 roles representing various nationalities in three interlocking and overlapping dramas spanning pivotal periods during the 20th century. This dizzying narrative deconstruction evokes the dislocation of an entire people -- a powerful interpenetration of form and theme.

-- Philip Brandes

Ends Sunday at the Boston Court Main Stage, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena. (626) 683-6883.