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A comic trip to hell, led by Virgil the puppet.

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From: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
Date: 20070616
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Byline: Mary Carole McCauley

Jun. 16--About the year 1300 A.D., the Italian poet Dante Alighieri went through one heck of a midlife crisis. Unrequited love, venomous political rivals, suicidal despair -- Dante grappled with, and chronicled, it all in The Inferno.

It was a vision of hell so graphic and detailed that, seven centuries later, it continues to grip artists' imaginations.

A recent incarnation, A Comic Strip, appearing at Theatre Project through Sunday, is a playful concoction of kitsch and culture, bringing to mind such diverse works as Homer's The Odyssey, ...

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