Review: The Magic Flute (Isango Ensemble at Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
South African theater company Isango Ensemble offers an interpretation of the Mozart classic opera that is unlike any other. Music arrangers Pauline Malefane and Mandisi Dyantyis orchestrate the score for an orchestra of marimbas and various other percussion instruments, creating a dramatically different listening experience that adds both a breezy lightness and haunting hollowness to the notes. (read Oliver Sava's e…