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‘Bengal Tiger’ at Lookingglass: Man, beast change stripes, and God’s not in the details

Feb 12, 2013 – 4:15 pm | 7,431 views
JJ Phillips as Kev and Anish Jethmalani as Musa in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph at Lookingglass 2013 credit Liz Lauren

Review: To be engulfed by the despair that sweeps over “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” is to be reminded of the spiritual nausea that seized Jean-Paul Sartre and other French existentialist playwrights who watched their own world getting blown to pieces in the 1940s. Lookingglass Theatre and director Heidi Stillman have turned Rajiv Joseph’s play into one of the peak stage experiences of this season. ★★★★★