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SUMMARY:A Murder of Crows
DESCRIPTION: Times:  Thursday-Saturday and Monday\, 8pm  Description: 
	Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company presents the Houston Premiere of Ma
	c Wellman's\, A Murder of Crows\, running August 28 – September 13\, 2
	008 at the Midtown Arts Center\, 3414 La Branch at Holman. A Murder of
	 Crows\, by Mac Wellman satirizes a family struck down by the toxic wi
	nds of pollution.  In a world where the air's “mustardy”\, and the oce
	an is so polluted it looks like a bowl of custard\, young Susannah ree
	ls from the death of her father\, killed under a pile of radioactive c
	hicken droppings.  With her brother slowly turning into a statue in th
	e garden and fed up with the rest of her greedy\, vulgar family\, Susa
	nnah finally follows her dead father's advice and leaves to live with 
	the crows.  The Village Voice- "Eighty loopy minutes long\, A Murder o
	f Crows is containable in size\, but joyously chaotic in substance\, s
	tructure\, story\, and style\; it's like opening a wristwatch box and 
	finding one of Dali's melted jobs inside." The Portland Mercury “using
	 language as beautiful and grotesque as the Old Testament\, The Book o
	f Mormon\, and the works of L. Ron Hubbard\, Wellman's stories\, of co
	urse\, take place in America\, a place best suited for extremism and v
	iolent beauty.  Time Out Chicago…. “Wellman paint(s) the denizens of a
	 Capra-like Midwestern hamlet as Goya-like grotesqueries who are just 
	as complicit in America's forthcoming fatted demise as they are victim
	s of it… The playwright's startling visual metaphors are resonant:” Th
	e Yale Herald… “Murder grabs hold of you from its opening lines\, and 
	very rarely gives you the opportunity to let go.”
LOCATION:Mid Town Art Center @ 3414 La Branch Street, Houston, Texas 7
	7004 United States
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