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Eight Forty-Eight 3/7/2008
Dueling Critics: Heat Wave




 
 
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In July 1995, a heat wave of epic proportions hit the Chicago area. Roads buckled, portions of the city’s power grid went down, and more than seven hundred people died over a 10-day period – all due to the heat. Eight years later sociologist Eric Klinenberg published the award winning Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.

Now, Live Bait Theater is attempting to give voices and faces to Klinenberg’s sociological research. Here to tell us if they succeeded are Eight Forty-Eight's dueling theater critics Jonathan Abarbanel and Kelly Kleiman.

Heat wave runs through April 6 at the Pegasus Players Theatre in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood.
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