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2011 Dionysos Cup Festival of New Plays
Join us for our annual Dionysos Cup Festival of New Plays featuring workshop presentations of five new plays by local playwrights including one by Polarity's artistic director, Richard Engling. The plays are Attachment Disorder by Trina Kakacek (director Adam Webster , dramaturg Jamie Bragg), Never the Bridesmaid by Bill Jepsen (director Mary Ellen O'Hara, dramaturg Kim Boler), Pound of Flesh by Katie Watson, (director Devorah Richards, dramaturg Richard Engling) The Longing of a Stray Dog by Helen Valenta (director Jaimie-Lee Wise, dramaturg David Fehr) and Absolution by Richard Engling (director Maggie Speer, dramaturg Ann Keen). Stage manager: Walker Josephine.
The Schedule:
Friday, May 13th @ 7:30pm: Pound of Flesh
Saturday, May 14th @ 7:30pm: Absolution
Sunday, May 15th @ 2:00pm: Never the Bridesmaid
Thursday, May 19th @ 7:30pm: The Longing of a Stray Dog
Friday, May 20th @ 7:30pm: Attachment Disorder
Saturday, May 21st @ 7:30pm: Never the Bridesmaid
Sunday, May 22nd @ 2:00pm: Pound of Flesh
Friday, May 27th @ 7:30pm: Attachment Disorder
Saturday, May 28th @ 7:30pm: The Longing of a Stray Dog
Sunday, May 29th @ 2:00pm: Absolution
About the Plays
Absolution by Richard Engling. Novelist Matthew Harken has written a book in tribute to his dear friend Anna who killed herselfbut Anna's ghosts are not pleased. They take Matthew back into her memories to find the truth of her life and legacy. Absolution is a play about fiction, reality and life after death.
Attachment Disorder by Trina Kakacek. What if your mother, whom you've never met, and then the adoptive father who gave you away the second time, all showed up for your eighteenth birthday to make amends and save you from the situation they left you in and they made those amends - in cash? Attachment Disorder explores family, forgiveness, nature vs. nurture, videotape, and the value of a human life in cash.
The Longing of a Stray Dog by Helen Valenta. A beautiful older woman. A man prone to silence. A handsome drifter. Three desperate characters intersect one deadly hot weekend in Chicago. When one of them commits a shocking act of violence, a fourth character enters. . . the most desperate of all.
Never the Bridesmaid by Bill Jepsen. Maria and Anthony are twins preparing for their parents' 40th anniversary party. Maria has been widowed once and divorced twice. Anthony hasn't dated in four years and doesn't plan to anytime soon. Yet they both have a lot to say about the other's love life. Never the Bridesmaid is a comedy about children living in the shadow of their parent's perfect marriage.
Pound of Flesh by Katie Watson. Emily is an anxious Chicago liberal on a road trip in South Carolina, where her family used to own slaves. Emily finds her African-American "cousin" Cheryl and tries to make amends, but her desire for easy reconciliation is thwarted when she learns Cheryl needs an organ donor. Interwoven with scenes from the 1860s, this play explores the state of integration in the age of Obama and asks: What must we do to make up for the crimes of the past?
The Dionysos Cup is in keeping with our mission to develop new work. The 'Polarity' in our name refers to the poles of the classic and the brand new. We will always be in the business of developing new homegrown scripts and bringing them to the stage. Another Polarity is in bringing works to both the stage and the page. Polarity has published two volumes of plays to date.
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LocationPolarity Ensemble Theatre at Josephinum Academy
1500 N. Bell
Chicago, IL 60622
United States
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| Minimum Age: 12 |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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