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Tony Award winner adapts ‘East of Eden’ for Steppenwolf By BRIAN JUSTICE
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rank Galati and the Steppenwolf Theatre were both born in Highland Park — Galati in the hospital in 1943, the company in a church basement in 1974 — and his professional and personal lives have been intertwined with both the wider Chicago theater scene and what is readily recognized as one of the leading theatrical companies in the country ever since. Galati grew up in Northbrook. He attended Northwestern University, earning an undergraduate degree and a PhD before becoming a professor of performance studies there. His high school drama teacher, Ralph Lang, had earned a PhD Continued on PG 12
Team spirit
Wilmette resident unveils engaging documentary of soccer players, coach close-to-home tragedy three months earlier (revealed in the tan Mietus enters a restau- film but not in this story). rant in Chicago, not far The scene appears near the end from where he works as a of “In the Game,” an 80-minute Kelly High School soccer coach documentary by two-time and serves as a second father to Peabody Award-winning filmhis players at the South Side maker Maria Finitzo, a Wilmette school. It’s his birthday. Mietus resident. She tracked the lives of walks past patrons and wait staff, three Kelly High School students thinking he’ll be seated with a on the Lady Trojans varsity couple of loved ones for a quiet soccer team and their dedicated dinner. coach. She started filming in The coach soon notices famil- 2010. She completed the Kariarity — soccer players’ faces and temquin Films project this year. the faces of the players’ parents. It premiered at the Madrid The faces, too many to count, are International Film Festival in smiling hard at him, thrilled that July. Audiences in the U.S. will the coach is sporting a surprised see it for the first time this look bordering on a stunned one. weekend at the Gene Siskel Film It won’t be a quiet dinner. It will Center in Chicago. be a celebration. “It was a film,” Finitzo says, It will also be a night that will “that was going to take a look at help the popular coach and his Title IX [a federal law that prowife heal some more from a hibits discrimination on the basis By BILL MCLEAN
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Maria Finitzo. Photography by Joel Lerner.
of sex in any federally funded education program or activity]. As I got into filming, that took a backseat. I became more interested in looking at the educational inequalities, based on race, based on class.
“The student body at Kelly is predominantly second-generation Hispanic. The documentary became a story about some of the girls, ‘left behind’ kids, and how hard it is to compete against poverty and issues related to race
[as they entered adulthood]. “If you’re a part of a democracy, you expect public education to be a level playing field,” she adds. “If it’s not level, you can’t Continued on PG 12
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