"Cloud 9"

"Cloud 9" Skewers Sexual Politics

Taking an insightful and witty look at gender politics and sexual oppression through the ages, Caryl Churchill's "Cloud 9" takes you from the corsets of colonial Africa to the sexual liberation of 1970's England. If you're looking for an explanation as to why Churchill, at nearly 80 years old, remains such an iconic feminist hero to this day, you really don't have to look any further than this gender-bending comedy of manners. As the show's characters form a tangled web of relationships, they wrestle with the many roles society has imposed on them -- and though 25 years pass over the course of the play, you quickly realize ... things haven't changed all that much. Ascend to "Cloud 9" with this Iron Crow Theatre production at the Baltimore Theatre Project.