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Eclipse Theatre Company presents
Eclipse 2018: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
part of the 2018 William Inge Season
Saturday, November 24, 2018 at 2:00PM

Athenaeum Theatre Studio Three
2936 N. Southport Ave.
3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60657
Lincoln, Wellington and Southport
CTA Bus #9; Brown Line Wellington Stop

PG-13 due to dark content. Performance lasts 2 hours 20 minutes including a 15-minute intermission.

The setting is a small Oklahoma town in the early 1920s and the home of the Flood family -- Rubin, a traveling salesman for a harness firm; Cora, his sensitive and lovely wife; Sonny, their little boy; and Reenie, their teenage daughter. A series of short stories unfolds — the fight between a husband and wife; the fear of an overly shy young girl on going to a dance; the problems of an introverted little boy who feels that the whole world is against him; the corroding marriage of Cora’s rowdy sister; and the tragedy of a military school cadet who suffers from the stigma of being a Jew in an alien community. There is dark at the top of everyone’s stairs, but it can be dissipated by understanding, tolerance and compassion.