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Gone, which has extended its run at Theater Oobleck through January 25, is a loud and fast-moving melange of a whole lot of things: Philip K. Dick, Giles Goat-Boy, and Dickens, for starters. In the play’s bizarre cosmology, humans are all students in an inescapable two-dimensional “university” whose administration is unreachable. (OK, that part’s not so bizarre.) Four “students” escape–into an ultrasmall parallel universe where there is no digestion and their only fellow humans are a larcenous cockney family. Further events include an attack of scleroderma, a visit from a 20-foot worm (and lots of visits from normal-sized ones), and several chopped-off fingers. Complaints about the length of Oobleck’s plays have kept this one trimmed down to a lean, mean 75 minutes; the efficiency of the pacing belies the fact that the group works without a director. Gone was written by and stars Mickle Maher: it shows Fridays and Saturdays at 9 and Thursdays at 8. Tickets are $4, “more if you’ve got it, free if you’re broke.” The theater is at 5153 N. Ashland. Call 878-4557.
Japanese photographer Yasumasa Morimura takes the work of famous Western painters (Rembrandt, Goya, Duchamp) and re-creates them using photographs, impersonating all the figures (both male and female) himself. You could probably call Morimura’s work either spoof or homage; the Museum of Contemporary Art, which today opens an exhibit of it, calls it “trompe l’oeil photography.” Options 44: Yasumasa Morimura runs through April 19; the museum, at 237 E. Ontario, is open Tuesday through Saturday 10 to 5, Sunday noon to 5. Admission is $4, $2 for students, seniors, and kids under 16. Call 280-5161.
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