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1997-1998
Season
The Removalists
by David Williamson
Directed by Adrian Butcher
With: Kirsten Fitzgerald,
Lara Phillips, Mark Nelson, Richard Sandoval, Guy Van Swearingen
and Wesley Walker
The Removalists drops us in on the tangled encounter of an
attractive young woman who, while attempting to free herself
from a brutish husband, seeks help from two police officers
who feign compassion for their own self-serving reasons.
Saturday Stories
(World Premiere)
by Jimmie Cumbie
Directed by Bea Bosco
With: Hanna Dworkin,
Linda Gillum, Kurt Naebig, Erin Philyaw, Christopher Thometz
and Wesley Walker
This one-act play peers through the windows and into the rooms
of an old Chicago apartment building and follows the lives
of its tenants as they make their way through the weekend
hours.
Chicago playwright and poet Jimmie Cumbie is the author of
Just A Little Bit Harder, a collage of scenes and monologues
based on the life of Janis Joplin which received its premiere
at Stage Left Theatre, and 120 & Forever, a rock &
roll fable concerning love and loss which premiered at the
Bailiwick Directors' Festival and moved on to a successful
run at Café Voltaire. In Saturday Stories, Cumbie examines
the lives of six urban dwellers trying to catch up with themselves
on the one day they have to call their own. Through image
and word, each character looks in vain for the bright promise
of a Saturday afternoon, leaving their dreams and disappointments
scattered across the stage.
The Killer
by Eugéne Ionescö
Directed by Danny Torbica
With: Bill Bannon, Tim
Beamish, Dominic Conti, Kirsten Fitzgerald, Gwendolyn Sue
Grote, Rich Hutchman, Mechelle Moe, Michael Shannon, Guy Van
Swearingen and Wesley Walker
Ionesco's tragic farce concerning an average Joe's attempt
to free the Radiant City, a paradise real estate development,
from the clutches of a genius serial killer.
Written in 1958, Ionesco's The Killer remains a harrowing
meditation on man's quest to find home and community for himself
in the metropolises of the industrial age. With his whimsically
savage wit and unblinking compassion, Ionesco takes us on
the journey of Berenger, an anonymous everyman, from his jubilant
tour through the Radiant City, a ridiculously utopian neighborhood,
to his search for the Killer who is emptying the city's streets
and houses with astonishing speed and efficiency. A mystery
even the police have given up on solving, Berenger cannot
rest until he uncovers its culprit and restores the Radiant
City's sparkle and shine.
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