2010-2011 Season
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Adapted for the Stage by Amanda Dehnert |
Written and Directed by Laura Eason |
Written by Nicola Behrman, David Kersnar and Abbie Phillips |
We’ll start by igniting your childhood imaginations with the timeless story of the boy who wouldn’t grow up. Amanda Dehnert, a nationally-acclaimed director with singular vision, will direct her original adaptation of Peter Pan, based on the books by J.M. Barrie. Bombastic, playful, and darkly comic, Dehnert’s adaptation brings innovative theatricality, aerial arts, and a soulful understanding of yearning and regret to this legendary adventure of pirates, fairies and fantasy. |
In winter, we’ll warm ourselves with a smoldering adaptation of Ethan Frome, a novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton. Ensemble Member Laura Eason, recently hailed by the Chicago Tribune as Chicago’s next breakout playwright, will direct her adaptation of this deeply poetic story about fervent desire, illicit passion, staggering regret and the irreversible choices that shape the life of a reticent farmer in Starkfield, Massachusetts. |
We close our season with an original story about a spirited woman in the twilight of her life directed and co-written by Ensemble Member David Kersnar. Now in her 87th year, Lilith Fisher (Lilka) is fending off ghostly visitations from her irreverent artistic partner and lover from 1939 Poland, relinquishing her independence to an Ethiopian caregiver from Jewish Family Services, while struggling to reconcile with her distant son. A classic hoarder of both objects and memories, Lilith now faces the universal dilemma of what to cling to and what to let go in this powerful piece about art and survival, The Last Act of Lilka Kadison. |
