If more local theater companies put on shows as exuberant and sexy
as Big Love, they wouldn’t have to spend so much time whining
that nobody cares about theater. Very loosely based on
Aeschylus’s The Supplicant Women, Big Love features the
squashing of tomatoes, the baring of naked flesh, and a final,
orgiastic spree of sex and violence that leaves the stage in shambles
and the audience in horny, happy awe.
(Balagan Theatre,
1117 E Pike St, 718-3245. 8 pm, $12–$15.)