Splendour

Aurora Theatre
2081 Addison Street Berkeley

Award-winning British screenwriter-playwright Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Suffragette), has, in the words of Time Out, "elaborated a play of remarkable intensity and richness ... [that] gleams with ice-cool wit, glistens with the sweat of animal fear." And if that hasn't piqued your theatrical interest, take a moment and check your pulse. As a revolution grows increasingly violent outside the confines of an opulent presidential palace, the arrival of an embattled dictator is awaited by four women -- the dictator's wife, her best friend, a British journalist and a translator. Time refracts and the past plays out from varying perspectives as the political tension escalates and the plot of the fascinating Splendour unfolds. Don't miss the Bay Area premiere of this breathtaking journey from Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company.