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  The Mill Presents Et Cetera VI Featuring                                                            312.388.7660
Week 9 of Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Days/365 Plays
Beginning FEBUARY 1st

 

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.

 

 

Thursday February 1 at 8pm
Friday February 2 at 8pm
Saturday February 3 at 8pm

       
               
     

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 .

 
               
 

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 HallSAMMY 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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