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SEPTEMBER 7, 2006
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Chicago's theatrical culture is rich and varied, one could literally spend a year sampling the smorgasbord of styles and aesthetics represented nightly on Chicago stages.
For this season's City Series, I decided to open with the legendary Neo-Futurists, whose own style is best exemplified by their ongoing Chicago favorite Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. They do, however, regularly assemble other work that is both topical, timely and thematically quirky. In The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen they bring the same savvy theatricality and a motherload of laughs to one of the greatest dramatists in history.
Fresh and smart "Ibsen" is a departure for the Neo Futurists and yet it displays their continued ability to reinvent themselves and their form, raising the "smart bar," of their audience while tickling our funny bones. You don't have to know anything about Henrik Ibsen walking in, but you will walking out--and most of all you will know a lot more about the tradition and the wealth of talent that is Chicago Theatre.
More anon,
Beej |
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2006/07 SEASON
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