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Friedrich Schiller Writes The Robbers

The Runaways present...

"Friedrich Schiller Writes The Robbers"

by Friedrich Schiller & The Ensemble

Directed / Designed by Olivia Lilley

The Runaways present a new take on the first play by a giant of Romanticism. In "Friedrich Schiller Writes The Robbers", we speculate and dream about what it must have felt like for Schiller to go from military school cadet on a path to a medical career to radical, vagabond banished without a care in the world other than to write the truth about the world he saw around him.

In our production, the story of "The Robbers" comes to life in the infirmary where it was written in secret. In the coughing, the stillness, and the candlelight, Schiller's imagination takes over and his characters come to life through himself, his fellow cadets, and their beautiful, tormented dictator, "The Nurse".

Through the act of creation, Schiller finds solace, clarity, and the courage to rebel, in the face of poverty, banishment, and certain defeat.

Friedrich Schiller went onto become one of the most important writer/philosophers of the 19th century.

Based on a true story.

Cast:

Charles Askenaizer as Franz/Robber/Cadet

Gannon Reedy as Pastor Moser/Priest/Count Moor/Robber/Cadet

John Wesley Hughes as Daniel/Kosinsky/Cadet

Andy Blaustein as Speigelberg/Herrmann/Cadet

Maggie Scrantom as Amalia/Nurse

and

Roy Rainey as Karl/Friedrich Schiller

Staff:

Assistant Director: Alex Parobek

Dramaturg: Shelly Horwitz

Assistant Producer: Gus Steiner

Performances November 7th - November 24th

Thursday - Sunday, 8pm

No matinees

@ The Parlor

1434 N. Western Ave

Chicago, IL 60622