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Theatre Tue Mar 23 2010
Tympanic Theatre Company's Ozma and Harriet @ the side project
It starts whimsically enough: Frank Younger builds a robot named Ozma (Final Fantasy, anyone?). Ozma and Frank's wife, Harriet, become friends. She introduces him to TV. Ozma becomes its disciple.
Then tragedy strikes, sending Ozma on a hedonistic journey through sex, death, and revenge. Sounds like my kind of left turn.
Playwright and Tympanic Theatre artistic director Daniel Caffrey chose to set his play in 1991, calling it a "memory play for the digital age." As a child of the "Saved By the Bell" sect (which was peaking around that year), I'm expecting heaps and heaps of the kind of nostalgia us twenty-somethings know best.
Ozma and Harriet opens March 25 and runs through April 18 at Rogers Park's side project theatre (1439 W. Jarvis Ave.). Performances are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm. You can order tickets online or by calling 773-442-2882.