It was a full house at the last showing of “Mad Madge and Her Blazing World” on Sunday, October 28 at the Experimental Media Performance Lab. The two-hour performance consisted of only eight actors who each played dozens of characters, from English royalty to French citizens to talking animals. Adapted and directed by Annie Loui and performed by Counterbalance Theater, “Mad Madge” is based on the novel “Margaret the First” by Danielle Dutton.
Counter-Balance Theater returns to UC Irvine as part of the Chancellor’s Illuminations initiative with “Elsewhere” — a play based on the Kazuo Ishiguro’s book...
The word metamorphoses comes from the Greek language, meaning “process of changing shape.” This was elegantly portrayed in the UCI production of Mary Zimmerman’s...
