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THURSDAY

There are four levels of beauty in Edwin Sanchez’s play Icarus. There’s the pinnacle, the photogenic elite who have it all, where aging starlet “the Gloria” once stood. Next comes the faded-glory plateau where she stands now. Then comes the beer gut of the bell curve, none of whose denizens figure in Sanchez’s story. Finally, there is rock bottom, home of the disfigured brother and sister Primitivo and Altagracia and their mysterious companion, who are hiding from what they call the Golden World and looking for a place where their handicaps and scars won’t stand between them and their dreams. They land on the same beach as “the Gloria” (thanks to a neat-o sandbox set) and are joined by an enigmatic stranger in a balaclava, called Beau. “You’re what I’m supposed to want,” Beau reassures himself as he follows “the Gloria” to her bed, but his heart is next door with the freaks. Find out where your head rests at 8 p.m. at Theater on the Run, 3700 S. Four Mile Run Drive, Arlington. $20. (703) 912-1649; see City List for details about the play’s full run. (Janet Hopf)