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Season 29:
What does it mean to be strong?
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October 19 - November 21, 2010 |
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the world premiere of
Kingsville
by Andrew Hinderaker
directed by Artistic Director Vance Smith
The day after the Virginia Tech shooting, radio shows were flooded with calls from listeners, repeating the same argument, over and over: if the students had only been armed, the shooter would've been killed and no one else would have died. Kingsville dares to explore whether maybe, just maybe, those callers had a point. In a hypothetical America where children legally carry guns to class, one teacher must choose between opposing a policy he abhors and putting his own son at risk. Kingsville was developed through our Downstage Left program and appeared in LeapFest 6.
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March 1 - April 3, 2011 |
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An Enemy of the People
adapted by Arthur Miller
from the play by Henrik Ibsen
directed by Jason Fleece*
What happens when one man's quest to do right is at odds with the best interests of his community? Can reason and science win out over rumor and fear? Arthur Miller asks these timeless questions in his powerful adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic, An Enemy of the People. When Dr. Stockmann makes a literally poisonous discovery, his brother, the Mayor, begins a war of innuendo and half-truths that threatens to tear their family—and their community—apart.
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June 2011 |
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LeapFest 8
See what's next in Chicago theatre - LeapFest's first seven years have so far graduated eleven plays to world premiere productions in Chicago and beyond, with three of these receiving the Jeff Award for Best New Work. Join us for an 8th smash year, when five new plays “take the leap” in development in this three week festival of politically-minded new work. Each play will be presented in rotating repertory, and performances are followed by a discussion with the playwright and director.
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