New year. New president. New plays. Can i get a “hell yeah!”?
The end of 2008 was pretty sweet—a big giant high five/hug/plain ol’ thank you (whichever you’re most comfortable with) to everyone who came out to support The Snow Queen and Drinking & Writing. The final Drinking & Writing show was completely sold out to standing room only!! (and the beer was pretty good, too)
We don’t like to lay low for long at Victory Gardens, though. We’re kind of sick of eating our way through the winter and ready to move on to something new. Next on the VGT docket?
Living Green
a world premiere by Gloria Bond Clunie
directed by Andi Dymond
This is a fresh new work set around the time of the Million Man March and follows the trials and triumphs of an affluent Black family living in the North Shore suburb of Chicago. As their children Carol and Dempsey come of age, Angela and Frank Freedman question whether they’ve done the right thing by choosing to bring them up in a privileged, predominantly white environment. Should they sell the home they’ve grown to love and relocate to a new fixer-upper in the far less glamorous Humboldt Park so they comfortably afford the cost of college? What motivates their hesitation to plunge back into the diversity they faught so adamantly for in their activist youth?
In the wake this recent Chicago Tribune article, the past year’s cuts in public transportation to areas of the city that are home to mostly minorities, and the impending inauguration of our nation’s first Black president, this is a important new show with a powerhouse cast and tender familial moments that will resonate with anyone who’s ever been a member of a family (that’s you! and you! even you!).
Living Green begins previews on Friday, January 23rd, 2009 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater.
You can check out the process before hand by attending our totally free open rehearsal on Thursday, January 15th at 6pm. Watch the actors and directors fine tune the show followed by a talkback and reception catered by Zig Zag Cafe. We’d love to have you, but keep in mind that space is limited. So if you’d like to come, please give us a little ring-a-ding or shoot us an email to say, “Hey! This looks cool! I want to come!” Direct these RSVPs to the great and wonderful Will Rogers at 773.549.5788 x2167 or wrogers@victorygardens.org
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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