Saturday, March 3, 2012

History turns confusing and amusing

'LEWIS AND CLARK REACH THE EUPHRATES'

Recommended

When: Through May 18

Where: Infamous Commmonwealth Theatre at National Pasttime, 4139 N. Broadway

Tickets: $20

Phone: (773) 458-9780

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In a program note for "Lewis and Clark Cross the Euphrates" -- a clever, blackly comic, phantasmagorical, graphic novel-like chronicle that stitches together some of this country's more ill-advised historical chapters -- playwright Robert Schenkkan comes clean about his decidedly partisan view of American history.

"I have an ax to grind," he confesses. And grind it he does, to the point where even the most devoted liberal might shout: …

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