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The Last Barbecue
SPECIAL EVENT! THEATER THURSDAYS: Come to 16th Street's/Berwyn Cultural Center's beautiful new outdoor garden before the show on Thursday July 16 at 6:30 PM to enjoy a barbecue catered by Cabin Fever featuring mini burgers grilled to order and all the yummy bbq fixings. Then stay to enjoy the comedy (7:30 pm performance time) that first put Chicago playwright Brett Neveu on the map, followed by a post-show dialogue with members of the cast and director. Just $22 per person.
16th Street Theater always has FREE parking! No meters!
ABOUT THE PLAY: An audacious and dark comedy about a ten-year reunion of a son's high school graduation that coincides with the one-year anniversary of the next-door neighbor's death.
Nancy Friedrich joins the original cast from The Aardvarks 2000 critically-acclaimed production starring Ashley Bishop, Don Blair, Matthew Brumlow,and Ann James. Hilarious and ominous! (Catey Sullivan, New City)
REVIEWS FROM THE AARDVARK'S 2000 PRODUCTION:
--"Hilarious and ominous, The Last Barbecue pierces its doomed world view with humor sharp enough to wound." - Catey Sullivan, New City (Chicago)
--"Neveu is lucky that his play landed in the hands of a director as capable as Ann Filmershe makes the most of Neveus script, turning every pause into a chance for drama... The Last Barbecue contains some of the most beautiful, pregnant, well-orchestrated pauses this side of Harold Pinter... The superb cast deliver nuanced performances... Highly Recommended Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader
MORE QUOTES FROM REVIEWS:
--No one can accuse Brett Neveu's likable dark comedy of being talky. Most of the time its five characters speak in short, seemingly innocuous sentences... They seem largely ill at ease with one another. And it's amazing how much they convey... Mr. Neveu and his cast have captured an unspoken group awareness of an awful truth: nothing is going to change here. Nobody's going anywhere." - Anita Gates, The New York Times
--"Like all the best theatre, The Last Barbecue offers an intimate glimpse at humanity at its most human. That quiet desperation that Thoreau wrote about is palpable." - Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
--a "seductively subtle, stylish play, in a sort of middle-American Pinteresque vein. An effectively surreal and original indictment of the middle-American family - no easy feat that." - Michael Lazan, Back Stage (NY)
--"In The Last Barbecue, Brett Neveu demonstrates that a thing of infinite sadness also may never hurry. He does this with extreme audacity and absolute authorial confidence." -David Finkle, Theatremania.com (NY)
Thursday & Friday performances are followed by post-show dialogues with the cast and director Ann Filmer.
Running time 90 minutes. No intermission.
Brett Neveu has worked with many theatres, including The Goodman Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club. Plays include Gas For Less, Eric LaRue and American Dead.
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LocationBerwyn Cultural Center
6420 16th Street
Berwyn, IL 60402
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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