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The
Mill presents
its sixth annual festival of short experimental,
progressive, and interdisciplinary performance
featuring the 9th week of
Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Days/365 Plays
at:
THE PETER JONES GALLERY, 1806 West Cuyler, 2nd Floor. |
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Thursday
February 1 at 8pm
Friday February 2 at 8pm
Saturday February 3 at 8pm
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The
365 Festival began on November
13, 2006, and runs through November 12, 2007, with a different Chicagoland
theater company taking the reins each week to present seven world-premiere short plays by Pulitzer-winner Parks. Information on the
Chicagoland portion of this national festival can be found at www.365chicago.org . |
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This week's installment of the festival features 8
plays performed simultaneously and
continuously in the
Peter Jones Gallery.
Audience members will walk freely about
the gallery and view the performances starting at 8pm.
Immediately proceeding the 365 plays the rest of the Et
Cetera VI program will take place in the black box space.
The 365 Plays include: SANTA
ANA, TURTLE SOUP
directed
by company members Jaclyn Biskup and Megan Larmer respectively
also featured: THE KING SLEPT HERE,
3 LIVES, IF I HAD TO MURDER ME SOMEBODY,
HORSE
AND RIDER, SPACE, and THUMP
AND THUNDER.
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Et Cetera VI is comprised of:
Jason
Adams'
toy theatre piece: UNTITLED
A parade of teeny tiny dancing girls, each performing for an audience
of one.
Brian Ruby: LAST
MINUTE (DROWNING 1943)
A
disjointed psychological examination of someone drowning in the Atlantic
Ocean during WWII
Curious
Theatre Branch: TENACITY
A destroyed body and destroyed mind prepare for "the fight,"
stuck in a loop of ritual and regret;
Sandbox Theatre Project: 2hundred30
A
non-narrative cross-disciplinary performance piece mixing the forms of
the haiku, descriptive prose, poetry, dialogue, and physical clowning;
Bob Fisher and Don Hall: SAMMY
AND THE CRICKETMAN
A short exploration of the shades of gray between evil and good,
pedophilia and intimacy;
Matt
Test:
THE HAUNTING OF YURI GAGARIN
A sound and performance piece incorporating the Russian space program,
fantasy sports, Oliver
Cromwell's head-piking, and emotional infidelity, which together poses
the question, 'who gets left behind'?
Mustang
Productions: HE PULLED MY STRINGS
An
abusive relationship personified by a doll and her puppeteer.
Jillian
Erickson's LOST BY FATE
A
meditation on memory and loss.
There is a
suggested donation of $15 for Et Cetera
VI
All performances of the 365 Days/365 Plays Festival
are free.
Peter
Jones Gallery
1608 W Cuyler, 2nd Floor, Chicago.
At the corner of Cuyler and Ravenswood.
One block North of the Irving Park CTA Brown Line Stop, and just West
of the
Metra tracks.
INFO: 312.388.7660 
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