MARCH
Dreaming Lucia, the newest play from the Lookingglass Theatre Company, looks at the life of James Joyce’s troubled daughter Lucia. After a peripatetic childhood she had a series of mental breakdowns in her 20s and was eventually institutionalized. According to writer and star Joy Gregory, the play explores the “lost histories of a young woman’s life.” Previews are tonight, tomorrow, next Thursday, March 9, and next Friday, March 10, at 8 at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport. Tix are $10. The show opens next Saturday, March 11, at 8; that’s $35. For more information see theater listings or call 871-0671.
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In the mid-70s the Red Krayola collaborated with a group of conceptual artists called Art-Language/Music-Language to produce Four Songs, a short black-and-white film of the band playing four songs in a small room, and Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors, a 25-minute video of the band, again performing in a small room. In conjunction with Drag City Records, which has been rereleasing the Red Krayola’s work, Chicago Filmmakers screens both works tonight at 8 at Kino-Eye Cinema at Chicago Filmmakers, 1543 W. Division. Afterward the Red Krayola will play live (but not in a small room). Tickets are $8, $6 for Chicago Filmmakers members. Call 384-5532.
When filmmaker and photographer Liz Chilsen says that her current installation is her attempt to “come to terms with the destruction of one of the most optimistic social movements of the 20th century and to understand one of the most significant abuses ever made to America’s democratic principles,” she’s talking about the failed Sandinista revolution and the successful U.S. attempts to undermine it. Chilsen’s Faultline: Managua Diptych is a series of large-scale photographs of a pair of Managuan cathedrals, both on an earthquake fault, one in tatters and one under construction. Photos from the work will be included in the Albert P. Weisman Scholarship Exhibit opening today at the Columbia College Hokin Center Gallery, 623 S. Wabash. The gallery’s free and open 8 to 7 Monday through Thursday, 8 to 5 Friday, and 10 to 3 Saturday. Call 663-1600 extension 696.
To celebrate International Women’s Day a broad coalition of local groups, including Women’s Action Coalition and National Organization for Women, have organized a rally and march starting at noon today at Federal Plaza, 220 S. Dearborn. It’s free. Call 918-9161 or 278-6706.
