Uploaded October 2013 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
BIG LOVE by Charles Mee • Oct 3 - Oct 13, 2013
Tickets: (860) 486-2113 or http://crt.uconn.edu/
Nafe Katter Theatre
BIG LOVE
By Charles Mee
Classical drama collides with modern-day excess in Charles Mee's Big Love, a fiercely extravagant adaptation of Aeschylus' The Suppliant Maidens that The New York Times described as "an MGM musical in Technicolor, a circus and, believe it, a Greek tragedy." Big Love is a luxurious, riotous, wild romp in which 50 brides -- all sisters -- vow to escape their 50 fiancés on their wedding night. Seeking to get away from the old country, where marriage is contracted and love is unheard of, the sisters leave their betrothed standing at the altar as they hop a boat for better times and a little equality. As the brides seek asylum at the villa of a family man who is unwilling to take sides, the grooms catch up -- by helicopter. With no one to stand up for them, the women decide to stand up for themselves by any means necessary. Big Love gives the term "battle of the sexes" a whole new meaning!
BIG LOVE by Charles Mee • Oct 3 - Oct 13, 2013
Tickets: (860) 486-2113 or http://crt.uconn.edu/
Nafe Katter Theatre
BIG LOVE
By Charles Mee
Classical drama collides with modern-day excess in Charles Mee's Big Love, a fiercely extravagant adaptation of Aeschylus' The Suppliant Maidens that The New York Times described as "an MGM musical in Technicolor, a circus and, believe it, a Greek tragedy." Big Love is a luxurious, riotous, wild romp in which 50 brides -- all sisters -- vow to escape their 50 fiancés on their wedding night. Seeking to get away from the old country, where marriage is contracted and love is unheard of, the sisters leave their betrothed standing at the altar as they hop a boat for better times and a little equality. As the brides seek asylum at the villa of a family man who is unwilling to take sides, the grooms catch up -- by helicopter. With no one to stand up for them, the women decide to stand up for themselves by any means necessary. Big Love gives the term "battle of the sexes" a whole new meaning!
