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Fall 2011
When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?
The Winter's Tale

Spring 2011
Our Lady of 121st Street
Full Circle

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UIC Department of Theatre and Music
College of Architecture and the Arts
EPASW Bldg. 1040 W. Harrison St. MC-255
Chicago, IL 60607
phone 312-996-2977 | fax 312-996-0954

2011 - 2012 UIC Theatre Performances

 
Main Stage Theatre
1044 West Harrison Street

UIC Students $11 Faculty and Staff $14 General Public $16

URBAN LEGENDS / RURAL MYTHS

UIC Theatre’s 2011-2012 performance season is a gripping celebration of the passions and intoxicating humor of living and loving in times of war and peace and what’s in-between.   Four spectacularly entertaining and provocative plays reflect the universal human quest for a compassionate and meaningful present.  

Our 2011-2012 season is catapulted into action by Mark Medoff’s  Obie Award and Drama Circle Award-winning When You Comin’ Back Red Ryder? Mesmerizing, humorous, intoxicating, and unsettling, the season’s theme of Urban Legends/Rural Myths is rocket-launched when a returning war vet enters a small rural American community causing havoc to its illusion of a classic American hero.  

Winter is ushered in with the transcendent The Winter’s Tale--Shakespeare’s great, play of loss and redemption that propels us spectacularly into a world of cruel kings, wronged children and miraculously reunited families that anticipates the mythological world of the Brothers Grimm.

Hailed as “…the best playwright in America under forty…” Stephen Aldy Guirgis shimmers with his startlingly Our Lady of 121st Street—a funny, tender and unflinching depiction of the hardscrabble streets of America’s urban landscape and the gulf between who we are and who we perceive ourselves to be.

Rounding out UIC’s newest season is both homage to and a raucous departure from Bertolt Brecht’s brilliant fable, The Caucasian Chalk Circle.   Charles Mee’s captivating flip-side  Full Circle is a masterfully rough and sprawling romp between the shores of cartoon and dream. 

2011-2012 joyously continues our on-going commitment to provide audiences with funny and ferocious performances that marry tradition with innovation, comfort with challenge, and the familiar with the new.

Fall 2011 Productions

WHEN YOU COMIN’ BACK, RED RYDER?
by Mark Medoff

Directed by Luigi Salerni

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“You tell ‘em it was Red Ryder drivin a Chevrolet Corvette Stingray convertible the color of money and livin in his own apartment.”

Opening September 30, 7:30pm

Also October 1, 6, 7, 8 at 7:30pm
October 2, 9 at 2pm
October 5 at 12noon  

 

THE WINTER’S TALE
by William Shakespeare


Directed by Richard Corley

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“Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;

With them forgive yourself.”

Opening November 11, 7:30pm

Also November 12, 17, 18, 19 at 7:30November 13, 20 at 2:00pm
November 16 at 12noon

 
 

Spring 2012 Productions

OUR LADY OF 121st STREET
by Stephen Adler Guirgis

Directed by Shanésia Davis

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“Bro’, a crime has been committed.  Evidence is being collected.  When that’s all done, and if Sister Rose’s body is found, we’ll open up the room.”

Opening February 17, 7:30pm

Also February 18, 23, 24, 15 at 7:30February 19, 26 at 2:00pm                February 22 at 12noon

 

FULL CIRCLE
by Charles Mee

Directed by Dado

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“From now on, everything is going to be brand new. From now on, everyone is going to have hope.”

Opening April 6, 7:30pm

Also April 7, 12, 13, 14 at 7:30
April 8, 15 at 2:00pm
April 11 at 12noon

 

 

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