Audio By Carbonatix
Hell, we’ve all had occasion to desire a place where assholes got their just rewards—mired in helplessness, screaming with pain, heads being bitten off. In 1319 Dante Alighieri unveiled a most exquisitely wicked 7-layer, sin-roasting pit in his famous Inferno epic poem. Beginning “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!” Dante sets the standard for “getting Medieval” on someone. Illustrations of the cautionary moral allegory through the ages, like Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delight,” have solicited shivers of fear—or delight, depending on which side of the pit the audience views itself. Addison’s intimate Stone Cottage Theatre presents Alejandro de la Costa’s adaptation of the epic Dante: Inferno from through April 26, with shows at 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and a matinee at 2:30 p.m. this Saturday. Recommended for mature audiences. Tickets range from $16 to $21. Call 214-477-4942 or visit DanteInferno.net
Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Starts: April 16. Continues through April 26, 2008
