Event

DrekFest 2012

DrekFest is on a mission to expose bad writing for what it really is: damn funny. We are not out to make fun of writers or those who love them. We are asking good writers to intentionally write awful plays so that we may laugh at them.

The four finalists form this year's competition are:

A Streetcar Named Sigmund on a Jung Tin Roof by Mauro Flores
Abortion Carnival of the Juggalos by 2010 Grand Loser Jake Lindquist
Pretentious Title That Makes You Hate This Play Before It Has Even Begun by Peter Papachronopoulos
Women Are People Too by Stage Left's very own Company Manager Kate Black Spence

The finalists were chosen through a blind submission process by a panel of drunken Stage Left ensemble members. They will be performed as staged readings on

Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 7:30pm
@ The ComedySportz Theatre, 929 W. Belmont

A panel of judges will then rip the playwrights apart for blighting the world in this way. The audience in attendance will vote on the Grand Loser, who will offered a sum of money to take the offending play and hide it away forever. This year's distinguished panel of judges:

Nick Digilio (WGN radio, former artistic director of The Factory Theater)
Kerry Reid (freelance critic for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Reader)
Eric Roach (Eric and Andy's Reviews You Can Lews, and The Factory Theater)