Milano’s patchwork of corpses is scandalous. And when the taxidermist gloats over the just-extracted liver (“Robust as a watermelon!”), the grisly particulars are on the prime. The conceptual hyperlink between such morbid humor and Argentina’s soiled battle historical past may not win awards for good style.
However the revised true historical past musical “Momia en el Clóset (Mummy within the Closet): Evita’s Return” at Spain’s GALA Theater is, not less than, much less lurching in tone than the 2009 unique. The inventive staff, together with the returning director Mariano Calligaris, has leveled the black comedy considerably and positioned it in a greater framework from a historic and political perspective, whereas making the mandatory elaborations.
