UIC Theatre Season 2019/2020

Borders | Boundaries | Us and Them 2019–20 Theatre Season

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Follow UIC School of Theatre and Music’s underdogs as they wrestle for land, love, family and a taste of success in this year’s 19-20 theatre season.

The 2019–2020 Mainstage Theatre Season is dedicated to the memory of Professor Emeritus Anthony Graham-White, in honor of 32 years of service to Theatre and Music at UIC.

TICKETS STUDENTS/ SENIORS

UIC STUDENTS

GENERAL

$10 single $30 season

$5 single $15 season

$15 single $50 season

theatre@uic.edu | theatreandmusic.uic.edu | 312.996.2939 School and group discounts are available. Please call 312.996.2939 for more information. We accept cash, check, or credit card. Checks should be made payable to UIC Theatre.

Season details and cast are subject to change.

Join us for free post-show discussions with the artists and special guests, curated by UIC faculty member Richard Corley.

Discussions will take place after the following performances: Luck of the Irish, Sunday, October 6 Ghost Buying, Integration, and Tolerance In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play, Sunday, November 17 Hysteria, Desire, and Marriage Barbecue, Sunday, February 23 Addiction, Dysfunctional Families, and Zippity Boom!

El Nogalar, Sunday, April 19 Narco Wars, Class Struggle, and Corruption

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UIC Theatre, 1044 West Harrison, Chicago, IL 60607

Opens Friday, October 4 at 7:30pm

LUCK of the

IRISH By

Kirsten Greenidge Directed by

Tyrone Phillips When an upwardly mobile African-American couple wants to buy a home in an all-white neighborhood in 1950s Boston, they pay a struggling Irish family to “ghost-buy” a house on their behalf. Fifty years later, the Irish family wants “their” house back. Moving across two eras, The Luck of the Irish explores racial and social issues and the universal longing for home.

Kirsten Greenidge wrote the play inspired by her grandparents’ efforts to buy a house in a white neighborhood.

Tyrone Phillips, Artistic Director of Definition Theatre will direct at UIC Theatre for the first time.

SHOW TIMES 10/04

10/05

10/06

10/09

10/10

10/11

10/12

10/13

7:30pm

7:30pm

2pm*

3pm

7:30pm

7:30pm

2pm|7:30pm

2pm

*Free post-show talk with artists and special guests.

Opens Friday, November 15 at 7:30pm

In the

NEXT ROOM

or the Vibrator Play By

Sarah Ruhl Directed by

Lydia Diamond In a seemingly perfect Victorian home, proper gentleman and scientist Dr. Givings has innocently invented an extraordinary new device for treating “hysteria” in women (and occasionally men): the vibrator. Adjacent to the doctor’s laboratory, his young and energetic wife tries to tend to their newborn daughter–and wonders exactly what is going on in the next room. Through a series of events and encounters with the patients, Dr. and Mrs. Givings must examine the nature of their own marriage and what it truly means to love someone.

This laugh out loud, provocative and touching play premiered at Berkely Rep and subsequently marked Sara Ruhl’s Broadway debut in 2009.

Faculty member and Jeff Award-winning playwright Lydia Diamond directs.

SHOW TIMES 11/15

11/16

11/17

11/20

11/21

11/22

11/23

11/24

7:30pm

7:30pm

2pm*

3pm

7:30pm

7:30pm

2pm | 7:30pm

2pm

*Free post-show talk with artists and special guests.

Opens Friday, February 21 at 7:30pm

BARBECUE

By

Robert O’Hara Directed by

Derrick Sanders The O’Mallerys have gathered in their local park to share some barbecue and straight talk with their sister Barbara, whose spiral of drugs and recklessness has forced her siblings to stage an open-air intervention. But the event becomes raucous and unpredictable as familial stereotypes collide with hard realities, and racial politics slam up against the stories we tell—and maybe even believe—about who we were and who we’ve become.

Jeff Award-winning director and School of Theatre and Music faculty member Derrick Sanders directs.

SHOW TIMES 02/21

02/22

02/23

02/26

02/27

02/28

02/29

03/01

7:30pm

7:30pm

2pm*

3pm

7:30pm

7:30pm

2pm|7:30pm

2pm

*Free post-show talk with artists and special guests.

Opens Friday, April 17 at 7:30pm

El

NOGALAR By

Tanya Saracho Directed by

Marcela Muñoz Set in modern-day Northern Mexico, the Galvan family, led by Matriarch Maite, have come back to their pecan orchard to reclaim their land after she has squandered away their money while living in America. In the time they were away, however, the Mexico they once knew has slowly been taken over by a drug war. Focusing on the relationships between the sisters, and a mother and her daughters, will these women choose to adapt to the world around them or get left behind?

Inspired by Anton Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard, Tanya Saracho has created a world where class pressure and social turmoil threatens traditional families’ land and lifestyle in contemporary Mexico.

Marcela Muñoz, Co-Artistic Director of Aguijón Theatre who directed last season’s enigmatic production of Electricidad is back directing at UIC Theatre.

SHOW TIMES 04/17

04/18

04/19

04/22

04/23

04/24

04/25

04/26

7:30pm

7:30pm

2pm*

3pm

7:30pm

7:30pm

2pm|7:30pm

2pm

*Free post-show talk with artists and special guests.

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