Postmodern Tearjerker: A Review of the Joffrey Ballet's "Atonement" at the Lyric Opera House
Based on a 2001 novel by Ian McEwan that was adapted for the screen in 2007, "Atonement" might be described as a sort of postmodern tearjerker: A complex, downbeat story of how a young girl's misjudgment leads to catastrophe.